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Definition of Salets
1. salet [n] - See also: salet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Salets
Literary usage of Salets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"WE are this moment arrived at the village of salets, ... WE quitted salets this
morning, in the fame cart in which we arrived, and it would have afforded ..."
2. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1839)
"These authorities prove that salets were of various constructions. The Skull, Is
a head-piece without visor or bevor, resembling a bowl or basin, ..."
3. The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire by Joseph Tilley (1892)
"... one of the King's tenants in the Peak, that Roger Clark, servant of Sir Richard
Vernon, came with seven men, armed with jacks and salets ..."
4. The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"Far down the path, the sun shone on seven steel salets, and from time to time,
as the trees opened, Selden and his men could be seen riding briskly, ..."
5. The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1888)
"Far down the path, the sun shone on seven steel salets, and from time to time,
as the trees opened, Selden and his men could be seen riding- briskly, ..."
6. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"WE are this moment arrived at the village of salets, ... WE quitted salets this
morning, in the fame cart in which we arrived, and it would have afforded ..."
7. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1839)
"These authorities prove that salets were of various constructions. The Skull, Is
a head-piece without visor or bevor, resembling a bowl or basin, ..."
8. The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire by Joseph Tilley (1892)
"... one of the King's tenants in the Peak, that Roger Clark, servant of Sir Richard
Vernon, came with seven men, armed with jacks and salets ..."
9. The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"Far down the path, the sun shone on seven steel salets, and from time to time,
as the trees opened, Selden and his men could be seen riding briskly, ..."
10. The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1888)
"Far down the path, the sun shone on seven steel salets, and from time to time,
as the trees opened, Selden and his men could be seen riding- briskly, ..."
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