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KNAVE (O.E. cnafa, cognate with Ger. Knabe, boy)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 849 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KNAVE (O.E. cnafa, cognate with Ger. Knabe, boy) , originally a male child, a boy (
Chaucer
 ,
Canterbury
  Tales: " Clerk's Tale," 1. 388). Like Lat. Auer, the word was early used as a name for any boy-or lad employed as a servant, and so of male servants in general (
Chaucer
 : " Pardoner's Tale," 1. 204). The current use of the word for a man who is dishonest and crafty, a
rogue
 , was however an early usage, and is found in Layamon (c. 1205). In playing-
cards
  the lowest
court
  card of each suit, the "
jack
 ," representing a medieval servant, is called the "
knave
 ." (See also
VALET
 .)


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