varlet
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈvɑːlət/
varlet (plural varlets)
- (obsolete) A servant or attendant.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 8, The Electon
- The Winchester Manorhouse has fled bodily, like a Dream of the old Night […] . House and people, royal and episcopal, lords and varlets, where are they?
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 8, The Electon
- (historical) Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood.
- (archaic) A rogue or scoundrel.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 410:
- My lady to be called a nasty Scotch wh–re by such a varlet!—To be sure I wish I had knocked his brains out with the punchbowl.
- 1886, Henry James, The Bostonians.
- He was false, cunning, vulgar, ignoble; the cheapest kind of human product […] The white, puffy mother, with the high forehead, in the corner there, looked more like a lady; but if she were one, it was all the more shame to her to have mated with such a varlet, Ransom said to himself, making use, as he did generally, of terms of opprobrium extracted from the older English literature.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 410:
- (obsolete, card games) The jack.
- Russian: слуга́
- Russian: оружено́сец
- Russian: негодя́й
- Russian: вале́т
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