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salade

/səˈlɑːd/

salade is the alternative form of sallet.

salade is the obsolete form of salad.

Meaning of sallet

Noun

sallet (plural sallets)

  1. (historical) A type of light spherical combat helmet used in the 15th century.
    • 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.1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11

Meaning of salad

Noun

salad (countable and uncountable, plural salads)

  1. A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often involving two or more such ingredients mixed together, with larger items cut or torn into small pieces, and usually with a dressing or binding; usually served cold or at room temperature, as a dish or savoury sandwich filling.
    • Lafeu. ’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.
      Clown. Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or rather, the herb of grace.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads; typically greens (especially lettuce).
    • sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
  3. (idiomatic) Any mixture of different things.
    • word salad

Forms of salade

pluralsalades

Origin of salade

From Old French [Term?].

Phrases with salade

Words that rhyme with salade

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about salade

What is salade the alternative form of?
Salade is the alternative form of sallet.
How do you pronounce salade?
Salade is pronounced /səˈlɑːd/.

Words near salade in the dictionary

  1. salad year
  2. salad years
  3. salad-dodger
  4. salad-dodgers
  5. salad-oil
  6. salade
  7. salade niçoise
  8. saladero
  9. saladeros
  10. salades
  11. Saladin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: salade (page history and authors); sallet (page history and authors); salad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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