valets

The Imperial _équipage de chasse_ is composed of ten _piqueurs, valets de chien, valets à pieds, valets à cheval_, and _valets de limiers_, and one hundred English hounds.

In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

But if the response to the bike valets is any indication, it could get mighty crowded.

Bike Valets for Inauguration Day - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

But if the response to the bike valets is any indication, it could get mighty crowded.

Bike Valets for Inauguration Day - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Fouquet's brow darkened; he called his valets-de-chambre, and dressed in ceremonial costume.

The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

And it's very true that our valets are the witnesses of all our actions.

The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884

Amazing minor characters people this era: out-of-pocket aristocrats, adventurers, swindlers, "valets" who are in fact their master's lovers.

Laughable and Tragic Applebaum, Anne 2008

Louis was provided with the surroundings of royalty on a small scale, such as valets, and young nobles as children of honor, even while the young king was pinched in his personal comforts and luxuries.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

The work of fixing it in position -- work performed as quietly as could be, so that the only sound was the occasional thud of a mallet -- had just been finished; and the headsman's "valets" or assistants, in frock-coats and tall silk hats, were waiting and strolling about in a patient way.

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

The work of fixing it in position -- work performed as quietly as could be, so that the only sound was the occasional thud of a mallet -- had just been finished; and the headsman's "valets" or assistants, in frock-coats and tall silk hats, were waiting and strolling about in a patient way.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

The work of fixing it in position -- work performed as quietly as could be, so that the only sound was the occasional thud of a mallet -- had just been finished; and the headsman's "valets" or assistants, in frock-coats and tall silk hats, were waiting and strolling about in a patient way.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5 ��mile Zola 1871