Usually means: Low-ranking servant; dishonest man.
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  1. varlet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. varlet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. varlet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. varlet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. varlet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Varlet, varlet: Wordnik
  7. varlet: Wiktionary
  8. varlet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. varlet: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. varlet: Dictionary.com
  11. varlet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Varlet (disambiguation), Varlet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Varlet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. varlet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. varlet: Rhymezone
  16. Varlet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. varlet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. varlet: Free Dictionary
  19. varlet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. varlet: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. varlet: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. varlet: A Word A Day
  2. varlet: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. varlet: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (obsolete) A servant or attendant.
noun:  (historical) Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood.
noun:  (archaic) A rogue or scoundrel.
noun:  (obsolete, card games) The jack.

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