An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet.
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Varlet
//ˈvɑːlət//
Synonyms for "varlet" (19 found)
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Translations
22 translations across 5 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- вале noun (jack)
- мошеник noun (rogue or scoundrel)
- паж noun (youth acting as a knight’s attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood)
- слуга noun (servant or attendant)
Dutch
3 entries- boer noun (jack)
- page noun (youth acting as a knight’s attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood)
- schildknaap noun (youth acting as a knight’s attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood)
Irish
1 entries- bithiúnach noun (rogue or scoundrel)
Macedonian
4 entries- и́змамник noun (rogue or scoundrel)
- ла́жго noun (rogue or scoundrel)
- паж noun (servant or attendant)
- паж noun (youth acting as a knight’s attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood)
Russian
4 entries- вале́т noun (jack)
- негодя́й noun (rogue or scoundrel)
- оружено́сец noun (youth acting as a knight’s attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood)
- паж noun (servant or attendant)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The varlet, or follower of the merchant, who was still a youth, though his vigorous frame and embrowned cheek denoted equally severe exercise and rude exposure, started and reddened at this free inquiry, which was enforced by a hand slapped familiarly on his knee, and such a squeeze of the leg as denoted the freedom of the camp.
Source: wiktionary
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?
Source: wiktionary
[T]here was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give back a foot from the walls, lest he find it all set down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp.
Source: wiktionary
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