sallet
/ˈsælɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "At Hampton Court, sallets for archers on horseback, sallets with grates, and old sallets with vizards: At Windsor, salettes and skulls: At Calais, saletts with vysars and bevers, and salets with bevers."
- "Ursula wore that day a hauberk under her gown, and was helmed with a sallet; and because of her armour she rode upon a little horse."
- ""No doubt the heathen for whom this famous sallet helmet was first forged must have had an extremely large head; worst of all, half of it is missing." When Sancho heard the basin called a sallet, he could not contain his laughter, but then he recalled his master's wrath, and he broke off in the middle."
- "One ſaid there was no ſallets in the lines to make thẽ ſauory, / But called it an honeſt methode, as wholeſome as ſweete."
- "To make Sallet of Lemon pill, or green Citron. You must have your Lemon Pill preserved very green, Rasp it into a Dish, and raise it up lightly with a Fork […]"
Etymology
From Middle French salade, from Spanish celada, thought to be from Latin caelāta (“ornamentally engraved [helmet]”) (although the Latin word is not attested in this sense).