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Salle vs Sallet - What's the difference?

salle | sallet |

As an adjective salle

is salted; salty (containing a significant amount of salt).

As a noun sallet is

(historical) a type of light spherical helmet or sallet can be .

salle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hall or room used for fencing.
  • * 2001 , Nick Evangelista, Anita Evangelista, The Woman Fencer
    • Your local fencing salle is a good place to relax and unwind and let the cares of the day take a backseat for a while. Meeting someone on the fencing strip, blade in hand, can become your only concern for two or three hours a couple of times a week.

    Synonyms

    * salle d'armes ----

    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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