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Salet vs Sallet - What's the difference?

salet | sallet |

As nouns the difference between salet and sallet

is that salet is a helmet, also sometimes called a salade or celate while sallet is (historical) a type of light spherical helmet or sallet can be .

salet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A helmet, also sometimes called a salade or celate.
  • *1786 : Father Daniel defines a Salet to be a sort of light casque, without a crest, sometimes having a visor, and sometimes without one. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 11.

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    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.
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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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