English Dictionary

varlet

/ˈvɑːlət/

noun

(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.

The varlet served the nobleman faithfully.

意味（1）

(obsolete) A servant or attendant.

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?

意味（2）

(historical) Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood.

[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.

意味（3）

(archaic) A rogue or scoundrel.

My lady to be called a nasty Scotch wh–re by such a varlet!—To be sure I wish I had knocked his brains out with the punchbowl.

意味（4）

(obsolete, card games) The jack.