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Valet
Definitions
- 1 A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
- 2 a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to their employer wordnet
- 3 A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
- 4 A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
- 5 A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
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- 6 A person employed to clean or park cars. US
"A HEROIC dad who helped deliver his new-born baby in the back of his car had to explain to his car valet that he wasn't involved in illegal crime."
- 7 A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
- 8 A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
- 9 A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
- 1 To serve (someone) as a valet. transitive
"You can valet me, can you? Bother valeting me! I like to put on my own clothes, and brush them, too, when they are on; and if I only knew how to black my own boots, by George I should like to do it!"
- 2 serve as a personal attendant to wordnet
- 3 To clean and service (a car), as a valet does. Ireland, UK, transitive
"He revealed: “We had been through a lot and I decided the car needed to be cleaned out after Georgina had to deliver the baby in the car. “You can imagine the scene when I left the car in for valeting. I got some funny looks and I had to explain to the guy that I wasn’t up to anything illegal because it did look a bit like a crime scene.”"
- 4 To leave (a car) with a valet to park it. US, transitive
"I asked Giacomo if he ever valeted his car, and he twisted his face into a grimace as he replied, “Rarely, but I have done it. Nervous time.”"
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.
Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.
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