salade

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/səˈlɑːd/

A form of sallet — A type of light spherical combat helmet used in the 15th century.

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sallet
OriginOld French [Term?] →
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Meanings

salade1

nounsalade (plural salades)

plural salades

  1. alternativeAlternative form of sallet, a kind of helmet.

    No plume or nobloy fluttered from his plain tilting salade, and even his lance was devoid of the customary banderole.

    1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The White Company, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC, page 297

salade2

nounsalade (plural salades)

plural salades

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of salad.

    This morning, May 2, 1662, having first broken my fast upon eggs and cooling salades, mellows, watercresses […]

    a. 1834, Charles Lamb, Curious Fragments extracted from a common-place book, which belonged to Robert Burton […]

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna light medieval helmet with a slit for vision

Similar
sallet
Broader
helmet
Also see
sallet

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Old French[Term?]
  2. Englishsalade

From Old French [Term?].

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with salade

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Cite this entry
APA

salade. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/salade

MLA

“salade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/salade. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “salade,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/salade.

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