英语词汇“varlet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

varlet

/ˈvɑːlɪt

noun

1 historical A man or boy acting as an attendant or servant.Even among those who rank, at least by economic criteria, as middle-class, the most proximate precedent for their dress style is that of medieval varlets.

2 archaic A dishonest or unprincipled man.What varlet hath done such a blight upon our fair Empire?

Derivatives

varletry

/ˈvɑːlɪtri/ noun ...

I will go and fright the varletry with my presence, and secure, I trust, a horse for Your Majesty, and one for myself.
The modern magazine reader is a member of the new bourgeois varletry, the monied class that makes the old nouveau riche look like aristocracy.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, variant of valet 'attendant' (see valet). The sense 'rogue' dates from the mid 16th century.

valet from Late Middle English:
Rich men who could afford to employ a valet to look after their clothes had to be careful that he was also not a varlet (mid 16th century), ‘an unprincipled man’, as the words are essentially the same. French valet ‘attendant’ and its early variant varlet are related to vassal (Late Middle English), from medieval Latin vassallus ‘retainer’, which derived from a Celtic word. The first valets were 15th-century footmen who acted as attendants on a horseman.

单词	varlet
释义	varlet /ˈvɑːlɪt / noun 1 historical A man or boy acting as an attendant or servant.Even among those who rank, at least by economic criteria, as middle-class, the most proximate precedent for their dress style is that of medieval varlets. 2 archaic A dishonest or unprincipled man.What varlet hath done such a blight upon our fair Empire? Derivatives varletry /ˈvɑːlɪtri/ noun ... I will go and fright the varletry with my presence, and secure, I trust, a horse for Your Majesty, and one for myself. The modern magazine reader is a member of the new bourgeois varletry, the monied class that makes the old nouveau riche look like aristocracy. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, variant of valet 'attendant' (see valet). The sense 'rogue' dates from the mid 16th century. valet from Late Middle English: Rich men who could afford to employ a valet to look after their clothes had to be careful that he was also not a varlet (mid 16th century), ‘an unprincipled man’, as the words are essentially the same. French valet ‘attendant’ and its early variant varlet are related to vassal (Late Middle English), from medieval Latin vassallus ‘retainer’, which derived from a Celtic word. The first valets were 15th-century footmen who acted as attendants on a horseman. Rhymes scarlet, Scarlett, starlet, starlit
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varlet

Derivatives

varletry

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