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valet
/ˈvæleɪ/
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What does valet mean?
noun
- A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
- A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
- 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.
More meanings (8)
noun
- A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
- A person employed to clean or park cars.
- A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
- A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
- A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
verb
- To serve (someone) as a valet.
- To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.
- To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈvæleɪ/
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As to the arrest of John Mitton, the valet, it was a council of despair as an alternative to absolute inaction.
Another man—Timókhin—was lying in a corner on the benches beneath the icons, and two others—the doctor and a valet—lay on the floor.
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Candide and his valet had got beyond the barrier, before it was known in the camp that the German Jesuit was dead.
In that interval, Mrs. Norbury’s maid found an opportunity of confidentially informing the valet of what had passed between her mistress and herself.
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn.