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/vˈɑːlət/
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NOUN
- a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
How To Use varlet In A Sentence
- “As you are a false varlet, had been the better obtestation.” The Abbot
- varlet," named Bogis, who was lifted on the shoulders of his comrades, till he could climb in at an undefended window, where he drew up sixty more with ropes. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
- These proved to be M. d'Agen's two lackeys and the two varlets M. de Rambouillet had lent us. A Gentleman of France
- God, master fool, if you do not let me alone, or that you will presume to vex me any more, you shall receive from the best hand I have a mask wherewith to cover your rascally scroundrel face, you paltry shitten varlet. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- His correspondence is in an affected ‘Roman style’ with stilted and archaized diction; his narrative letters, even reported speech, are full of archaisms like ‘thee,’ ‘varlet,’ and ‘durst.’
- A varlet is a valet who has come down, and down, and down, and down again in the world, till, from once having been the servant and the trusty friend of the very best of masters, he has come to be the ally and accomplice of the very worst of masters. Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
- She'll not be “chastised with the sober eye of dull Octavia,” nor shown “to the shouting varletry of censuring Rome.” The Man Shakespeare
- a youth, foot-soldier: L. infntem INFANT n. 1 For the development of the It. infante cf. the apocopated form fante 'a man or woman servant or attendant; also, a footman or soldier seruing on foot; also the knaue or varlet at cards ' Army Rumour Service
- With friendly arm, they rais'd us: nathlefs fome Among our old and ftubborn fwains mifdeem'd,, nd envy'd, who enrich'd them; envy'd thofe, hofe virtues taught the varletry of towns To ufeful toil to turn the pilfering hand. The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
- Thou incorrigible varlet, what brings thee here?" replied Tell, in an undervoice, giving Philip a rough grip of the arm. Heroes Every Child Should Know