varlet

IPA: vˈɑrɫʌt

(obsolete) A servant or attendant.
(historical) Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood.
(archaic) A rogue or scoundrel.
(obsolete, card games) The jack.

Examples of "varlet" in Sentences

"And 'varlet' is the wrong gender, anyway," observed Bess.
She called the varlet within the chapel, and showed him this wonder.
Philippa recognised him at once as the personal "varlet" attendant on the Countess.
The Wolf—who was not a warrior of the Blood, but a mere varlet—had a hole in his chest.
He wore an undyed tunic that fell short of his knobby knees, and his sword proved to be the sort of everyday long knife any varlet might have.
"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.
He got up and swung his sword at the varlet seated on the ground, and the man parried with the haft of his ax, and there was a dull thunk when steel met ironwood.
I don't know about you, but I think Pile's Friar Tuck would be offended at such a blunt address, and would probably say something like, How now, thou naughty varlet?
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.