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var·let (vär′lit)

noun

  1. an attendant
  2. a youth serving as a knight's page
  3. a scoundrel; knave

Etymology: ME < OFr, a servant, page, var. of vaslet (see valet): for sense development see knave

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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