Noun

1. spicy information
2. A helmet, also sometimes called a salade or celate.

Quotations

• 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 378-383

  I remember one said

  there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter

  savoury nor no matter in the phrase that might indict

  the author of affection, but called it an honest method,

  as wholesome as sweet, and by very much more

  handsome than fine.

• 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11.

  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.