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- noun Plural form of
sallet .
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Examples
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Purslane reigned supreme, and the disappointed planters ate it philosophically, deciding that Nature knew what was best for them, and would generously supply their needs, if they could only learn to digest her "sallets" and wild roots.
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IV.xxviii. 146b, On their heads [they] hadde sallets of leather.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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She took these men readily, and agreed with them for a good wage; and whereas each one had bow and arrows and short sword, she had but to buy for them jacks, sallets, and bucklers, and they were well armed as for their condition.
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I've taken some of the sidebar titles from John Evelyn's Acetaria: a discourse of sallets.
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There were the knights, gleaming in richly wrought plate-armor, colored plumes waving above their burnished sallets.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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There were the knights, gleaming in richly wrought plate-armor, colored plumes waving above their burnished sallets.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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His usual food is pickled coats of mail, salt helmets and head-pieces, and salt sallets; which sometimes makes him piss pins and needles.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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His usual food is pickled coats of mail, salt helmets and head-pieces, and salt sallets; which sometimes makes him piss pins and needles.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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There were the knights, gleaming in richly wrought plate-armor, colored plumes waving above their burnished sallets.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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There were the knights, gleaming in richly wrought plate-armor, colored plumes waving above their burnished sallets.
Black Colossus Howard, Robert E. 1979
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