valet
nounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈvæleɪ//
- United Kingdom//ˈvælɪt//
- United States//ˈvæleɪ//
- United States//ˈvælɪt//
A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
noun
- 1
A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
- 2
A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
- 3
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.
- 4
A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
- 5
A person employed to clean or park cars.
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.
- 6
A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
- 7
A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
- 8
A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
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.
verb
- 1
To serve (someone) as a valet.
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!
[…] the red-haired boy who had valeted me in the morning appeared in a plain suit of black.
- 2
To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.
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.”
- 3
To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.
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.”
“‘Is this a date?’” Ms. Ludbrook recalled thinking during dinner. “I had valeted my car, and he hadn’t. He said, ‘Bye,’ and went to his car. Clearly this was not a date.”
Forms
- plural
- valets
- past tense
- valeted
- past participle
- valeted
- present participle
- valeting
- third person singular
- valets
valet · A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
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