Definition of "varletry" []

• Archaic A crowd of attendants or menials. (noun)
• Archaic A disorderly crowd; a rabble. (noun)

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• "The modern magazine reader is a member of the new bourgeois varletry, the monied class that makes the old nouveau riche look like aristocracy."
• "She'll not be “chastised with the sober eye of dull Octavia,” nor shown “to the shouting varletry of censuring Rome.”"
• "Scarcely were we concealed than the varletry of Theophilus burst into our laura."