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sal·let

(săl′ĭt)

A light, late medieval helmet with a brim flaring in the back, sometimes fitted with a visor.

[Middle English salet, from Old French sallade, from Old Spanish celada or Old Italian celata, both probably from Latin caelāta (cassis), engraved (helmet), feminine past participle of caelāre, to engrave, from caelum, chisel; see kaə-id- in Indo-European roots.]

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sallet

(ˈsælɪt) or

salet

;

salade

(Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) a light round helmet extending over the back of the neck; replaced the basinet in the 15th century

[C15: from French salade, probably from Old Italian celata, from celare to conceal, from Latin]

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sal•let

(ˈsæl ɪt)

n.

a 15th-century helmet with a visor or visor slit and a protective extension for the neck.

[1400–50; < Middle French < Sp celada (or Italian celata) < Latin caelāta (cassis) engraved (helmet)]

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sallet - a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision

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helmet - armor plate that protects the head

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Thus Shakespeare imagined Dido, Queen of Carthage being read in an exclusive milieu like that of James's "Castalian Band" of Scottish poets, a pleiade in which the text would be savored precisely because "there were no sallets in the lines" (421-26).

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While musing on another war of the Elizabethan theaters, Hamlet expresses nostalgic admiration for a play with "no sallets in the lines to make the matter savory, nor no matter in the phrase that might indict the author of affectation" (2.2.441-43).

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When rigorously applied in The Passion of Joan of Arc, this line of research did not meet with the enthusiasm or the understanding of the critics who in 1928, in the grip of the fantasy of ostentation, reproached the film for its plastic asceticism (which borders on an almost complete abstraction of the sets) and its lack of historicity, conspicuous in the horn-rimmed spectacles (fashionable during the '30s) worn by a monk, and in the English helmets from the First World War whose shape vaguely resembles that of fifteenth century sallets (one-piece helmets with a pronounced neck-piece).