different between salet vs sallet

English

Noun

salet (plural salets)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, Tesla, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas, tesla

Dutch

Alternative forms

• zalet (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French salette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa??l?t/
• Hyphenation: sa?let
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

salet n (plural saletten, diminutive saletje n)

1. A salon, a small room where one receives guests.
2. (obsolete) An upper-class party or similar formal meeting where one socialises; often of a type traditionally organised and attended by ladies, such as a tea party.

Derived terms

• saletjonker

Related terms

• salon
• zaal

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

salet n

1. definite singular of sal

Anagrams

• laset, laste, least, lesta, letas, létas, salte, selta, stela, tasle, telas, tesla

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæl?t/

Etymology 1

From Middle French salade, from Spanish celada, thought to be from Latin cael?ta (“ornamentally engraved (helmet)”) (although the Latin word is not attested in this sense).

Noun

sallet (plural sallets)

1. (historical) A type of light spherical helmet
   • 1896, William Morris, The Well at the World's End, Book IV, Chapter 29

     Ursula wore that day a hauberk under her gown, and was helmed with a sallet...

Synonyms

• celate, salade

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

sallet (plural sallets)

1. Archaic form of salad.
   • 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, 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.

   • 1682, A perfect school of Instructions for the Officers of the Mouth

     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 […]

Anagrams

• Stella, all set, stella