The super-curious insist that the knife with which sallet herb is cut must be of silver. |
The word turns up in Old French as salade and then in late 14th-century English as salad or sallet. |
If you bring anything for comfort in the country, butter or sallet oil, or both is very good. |
He made haste to don his father's sleeveless chain coat and sallet. |
It quite frightened her, not knowing that Unity sallet was in the waggon likewise. |
Many a time, but for a sallet, my brain-pan had been cleft with a brown-bill. |