varlet

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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?”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim A rogue or scoundrel.

   “[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. isim The jack.