salade
- noun
- Archaic
- LAROUSSE: Three orders of salade composée working.
Examples
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Not too much vinaigrette on that salade composée.
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I need two salmon, three salade composée, and three fillet.
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I made a Salade Nicoise.
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Looks like some sort of... watery salade.
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MAN: Three salade composée up.
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I sat down, ordered a Croque Monsieur, a salade des tomates, and a glass of red wine.
Fiction book (2000) -
Salade Utopia.
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I'm always following the leader, Belinda thought as she ordered salade niçoise and coffee.
Fiction book (1996) -
In the battlefield, knights wore a salade to protect their heads while maintaining visibility.
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The museum displayed a beautiful salade that was used during medieval times for combat.
Synonyms
A light helmet with a narrow eye slit used by soldiers in the late Middle Ages
A light open helmet without a visor used in the 1500s and 1600s
A light open helmet worn by soldiers long ago
A light metal helmet with a high crest worn by soldiers in the 1500s
A metal helmet worn by soldiers long ago or a hard, helmet-like growth on some birds' heads
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word salade for a light medieval helmet comes from Old French salade, also written sallet. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a 'salad bowl' sitting on the head, because a salade was a rounded helmet that covered the back and sides of the head and left a slit for seeing.