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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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