varlet

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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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Her second, an insolvent playboy, blandly accepts her money, calls himself her gigolo, sneers over her with her daughter Veda as a working woman, a moneygrubber, a "varlet."

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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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Hanff is given to saying things like "thou varlet," but except for the fact that she is single, Roose-Evans tells almost nothing about her, far less than he reveals about her friends in England.

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A falconer like Edgar’s father was better paid and of higher social status than a groom or varlet.

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