varlet

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈvɑːlət/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A servant or attendant. obsolete
    — 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.
  2. Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood. historical
    — [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.
  3. A rogue or scoundrel. archaic
    — [W]hen the worlde is fraughted with ſo manye varlettes, that it will be a long time ere a man ſhall diſcerne the faythful from the Hipocrites.
  4. The jack. obsolete

词形变化

varlets plural

词源

From Middle English varlet, varlette, from Old French varlet, variant of vadlet, vallet, vaslet. Doublet of valet.
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