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Ballet vs Sallet - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between ballet and sallet

is that ballet is a classical form of dance while sallet is (historical) a type of light spherical helmet or sallet can be .

ballet

English

(wikipedia ballet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A classical form of dance.
  • A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
  • The company of persons who perform this dance.
  • (music) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa-la burden or chorus, most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
  • (heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * ballet dancer * ballet flats * ballet music

    See also

    * mime * modern dance ----

    sallet

    English

    (wikipedia sallet)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) salade, from (etyl) celada, thought to be from (etyl) (although the Latin word is not attested in this sense).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A type of light spherical helmet
  • * 1786 , , A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 11.
    • 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.
    Synonyms
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    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1602 : , act 2 scene 2 lines 378-383
    • I remember one said
    there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter
    savoury nor no matter in the phrase that might indict
    the author of affection, but called it an honest method,
    as wholesome as sweet, and by very much more
    handsome than fine.

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