Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man's male servant, who takes care of his clothes and performs other personal services.
- noun An employee, as in a hotel or on a ship, who performs personal services for guests or passengers.
- noun A person who parks and retrieves cars for patrons of restaurants, theaters, and other business establishments.
- intransitive verb To act as a personal servant to; attend.
- intransitive verb To work as a valet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man-servant who attends on a man's person. Also called
valet de chambre . - noun In the manège, a kind of goad or stick armed with a point of iron.
- To attend on as valet; act the valet to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on a gentleman's person; a body servant.
- noun (Man.) A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron.
- noun a body servant, or personal attendant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A man's
personal maleattendant , responsible for his clothes and appearance. - noun A
hotel employee performing such duties for guests. - noun professional wrestling A
female performer inprofessional wrestling , acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience. - noun A female
chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him. - noun A person employed to clean or
park cars. - noun A
wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing. - verb transitive To
clean andservice (acar ), as a valet does.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb serve as a personal attendant to
- noun a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He did not disturb his _valet de chambre_, who was sleeping soundly at some distance; he dressed himself, and the valet, in a great fright, sprang up, thinking he had been deficient in his duty; but the king sent him back again, commanding him to preserve the most absolute silence.
The Vicomte De Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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_valet_ of a woman; who does not know that a man wears a shirt, and that a valet is male?
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894
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Ovid said of Callimachus _quamvis ingenio non valet, arte valet_. [
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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But, if the valet is the property of the man, is obliged to perform this service, and is not paid for it, he is not economically independent.
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The valet is in fact atrocious … hard to understand in a hotel.
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Under the name valet underground, it was posted on YouTube, got rubber?
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Then go to a place where parking valet is a courtesy.
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Under the name valet underground, it was posted on YouTube, got rubber, and then later removed, ut it's hard to remove this from your mind.
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Example – The valet is inside the driveway, and the car is parked on a parking lot without leaving the street.
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Ya, the trulucks valet is ripoff regardless of what they are charging.
madmouth commented on the word valet
must be pronounced unlike the French, with a fully realized 't' at the end (if you subscribe to Chapism, that is)
June 22, 2009