Middle English Dictionary Entry
salet(te n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | salet(te n.(1) Also salat(te, salectte, sallet & salad(e. |
| Etymology | OF salade, salate & AL saletta. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A light helmet, bowl-shaped, flaring and extended in the back, sometimes incorporating a visor; also, such a helmet used as a receptacle [quot.: 1472-3, 2nd].
Associated quotations
- (1437-8) Will York in Sur.Soc.3063 : Optimum doblet meum et unum Carlele axe, unum salett.
- (1441) Proc.Privy C.5.160 : Þer come..an xvj persones or mo arraied with jakkes, salades, [etc.].
- (1444) Will York in Sur.Soc.30112 : I wol yat he have..a pollax, a salatte, a pair of trussing cofris.
- (1450) Wars France in RS 22.2475 : Item, xx paire of briganders; item, xx salettz.
- (1451) Lin.DDoc.51/16 : I will that Richard & hys Brodyr Iohn Thymelby, Richard sargant haue Ilkon of yam A Iak & a salad.
- (1451) Reg.Chanc.Oxf.in OHS 93253 : Item, lego Willelmo filio meo..unam galeam vocatam salat.
- (1454) Doc.in Gilbert Cal.Dublin 1283 : Hit was ordenyte..that no prentise..shulde be admitted unto the fraunches of the saide citte till he have a jake, bowe, shefe, sallet, and swerde of his owne.
- (1454) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.146 : [6] sallettes [without visors, at 2 s. 8 d. each].
- (1458) Act Ripon in Sur.Soc.6477 : Item, lego Willelmo, filio meo, meum arcum cum sagittis, gladium, bukler et salectte.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)930 : The Centeners had also werreourys, Hardy, wel harneysed, in their salet That had a creste of fetherys or lik flourys.
- (1469) Acc.Howard in RC 57215 : Item, ffor ij salates wyth demye veseres, ffor yemen, vij s. iiij d.
- (1472-3) RParl.6.51b : Oon John Myrfeld..accompayned with other Riottours and evyll disposed persones..to the nombre of cc persones and moo, arraied defensably in maner of werre, that is to witte, with Curays, Corsettes, Speres, Jakkes, Salettes, Bowes, Arrowes and Longdebiesses..the said Maner and dwellyng place assauted.
- (1472-3) RParl.6.51b : Riottours..the yates of the same Manere and dwellyng place willfully and purpeusely with fyere brought with theym in a Salette thider then and there brent.
- a1500 Conq.Irel.(Rwl B.490)11/24 : They sawe the Englysh men..ham-Selfe wel wepenyd with haubergeons and bryght Salletis and sheldys.