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.
[ 'sa-l&t ] (noun.) 15th century. 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).