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varlet
- /ˈvɑːlət/ UK
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From Middle English varlet, varlette, from Old French varlet, variant of vadlet, vallet, vaslet. Doublet of valet.
noun varlets
- A servant or attendant. The varlet, or follower of the merchant, who was still a youth, though his vigorous frame and embrowned cheek denoted equally severe exercise and rude exposure, started and reddened at this free inquiry, which was enforced by a hand slapped familiarly on his knee, and such a squeeze of the leg as de
- Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood. [T]here was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give back a foot from the walls, lest he find it all set down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp.
- A rogue or scoundrel. [W]hen the worlde is fraughted with ſo manye varlettes, that it will be a long time ere a man ſhall diſcerne the faythful from the Hipocrites.
- The jack.
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noun youth acting as a knight’s attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood
| Русский | оружено́сец oruženósec |
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noun rogue or scoundrel
| Русский | негодя́й negodjáj |
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noun jack
| Русский | вале́т valét |
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title = {varlet},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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