单词 | varletry |
释义 | varletryn. Varlets collectively; a number or crowd of attendants or menials. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > servants collectively meiniea1382 varletrya1616 servitude1667 servantry1784 ha'-folk1786 servantdom1853 a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 55 Shall they hoyst me vp, And shew me to the showting Varlotarie Of censuring Rome? View more context for this quotation 1757 J. Dyer Fleece iii. 108 Those, Whose virtues taught the varletry of towns To useful toil to turn the pilf'ring hand. 1789 J. White Earl Strongbow II. 20 The retainers..now hurried to the barbican... I wheeled round however, and with Gridalbin made a hideous carnage of this varletry. 1840 R. Browning Sordello vi. 402 Gay swarms of varletry that come and go, Pages to dice with. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. xlv. 123 It was only the clientage and varletry of Octavia who had dared to assume the people's name. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1616 |
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