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noun

Varlet n.

A servant, especially to a knight; an attendant; a valet; a footman. (Obs.)

Hence, a low fellow; a scoundrel; a rascal; as, an impudent varlet. "What a brazen-faced varlet art thou!"

In a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack. (Obs.)

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"Varlet" Quotes from Famous Books

... now, that's impudint, ye varlet. As if Teddy McFadden would let go hook and line, bob and sinker, whin he had got hold of a sturgeon. Be aisy now; I'll squaze the gizzard and liver iv ye togither, if ye doesn't ...

— The Lost Trail - I • Edward S. Ellis

... that Douglas preaches against idolatry, and he remits to my conscience forsooth, gif that be heresy—and he preaches against adulteries and fornications too—was ever sic varlet terms written in ony nobleman's letter afore this apostate's time—and he refers that to ...

— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt

... glared at him in speechless wrath. It would have liked him well to bring this contumelious varlet to his knees. But how? It was a byword that Vigo minded no man's ire but the duke's. The King of France ...

— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle

... successful conveyance, he shifted his eyes alternately from the young gentleman to the broker for a considerable pause, during which he in silence reproached the last for introducing such a beggarly varlet to his acquaintance; then taking the pipe from his mouth, "Sir," said he, addressing himself to the Count, "if I had all the inclination in the world to comply with your proposal, it is really not in my power. My correspondents abroad ...

— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett

... scenes in which the rogue figures seem purposely devised for verification of his principles. Mind, Charlie, I do not say it is so, far from it; but I do say it seems so. Yes, Autolycus would seem a needy varlet acting upon the persuasion that less is to be got by invoking pockets than picking them, more to be made by an expert knave than a bungling beggar; and for this reason, as he thinks, that the soft ...

— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville

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