Definition of "varletess" [varletess]

• A female varlet; a waiting-woman. Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, I. xxxi. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In short, Jack, it was more pride than love, as I now find it, that put me upon making such a confounded rout about losing that noble varletess."
• "And at this instant I thought I felt the revived varletess (on but a slight retrograde motion) writhing round my pericardium like a serpent; and in the action of a dying one, (collecting all its force into its head,) fix its plaguy fangs into my heart."
• "How often have I gave thee warning! — and now, I hope, thou intruding varletess, have"