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| 1. | a knavish person; rascal. |
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n.
[Middle English, from Old French, variant of vaslet; see valet.] |
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varlet
1456, "servant, attendant of a knight," from M.Fr. varlet (14c.), variant of vaslet, originally "squire, young man," from O.Fr. vassal (see vassal). The meaning "rascal, rogue" is 1550.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| varlet | |
noun | |
| 1. | a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: rogue] |
| 2. | in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood [syn: page] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
Varlet
Val"et\ (?; 277), n. [F. valet, OF. vallet, varlet, vaslet. See Varlet, and Vassal.]1. A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant. 2. (Man.) A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron. Valet de chambre[F.], a body servant, or personal attendant.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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