Old Pros
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Varlets
A boy or man who is a servant, menial, groom, or attendant.
"She calls out to the
varlets
she doth keep: Braine the dog's master first, and then the cur."
Sir Robert Stapleton, Juvenal's sixteen satyrs (1647).
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