salletとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈsælɪt/
• 韻: -ælɪt

語源 1

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

名詞

sallet (plural sallets)

1. (historical) A type of light spherical combat helmet used in the 15th century.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, 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.

   • 1896, William Morris, chapter 29, in The Well at the World's End‎, volume II, London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., book IV, page 258:

     Ursula wore that day a hauberk under her gown, and was helmed with a sallet; and because of her armour she rode upon a little horse.

   • Part 1 published in 1605, Part 2 in 1615, translated in 2003, Miguel de Cervantes and translated by Edith Grossman, Don Quixote, page 155:

     
     "No doubt the heathen for whom this famous sallet helmet was first forged must have had an extremely large head; worst of all, half of it is missing."
     When Sancho heard the basin called a sallet, he could not contain his laughter, but then he recalled his master's wrath, and he broke off in the middle.

別の表記

• salet, salade, celate

語源 2

Alternative forms.

名詞

sallet (countable and uncountable, plural sallets)

1. Archaic form of salad.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], signatures E3, verso – [E4], recto:

     One ſaid there was no ſallets in the lines to make thẽ ſauory, / But called it an honeſt methode, as wholeſome as ſweete.

   • 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 […]

アナグラム

• stella, Tealls, Stella, all set