varlet

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Then the custodian snarls his ill-natured correction, clearly demonstrating that he is an insolent varlet who does not know his place.

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The Bruges-Detroit show starts with Jan van Eyck, who was court painter and varlet de chambre to Philip the Good, and did as much as any man to change the history of painting.

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The artists of the period, though rarely achieving a title more illustrious than varlet de chambre, were only too happy to oblige.

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The era of lake naming and varlet thrashing in the upper reaches of the Nile has been written about extensively, mostly in biographies or autobiographies of such heroes as Livingstone.

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Father is a varlet, and the varlet serves the lord.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz