Meanings
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1
noun
a person that will park and fetch cars for people using a business, restaurant or service
The valet was disappointed with their tips.
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2
noun
a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to their employer
My valet will make the arrangements for my room.
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3
verb
to serve as a personal attendant to
You do not need to valet for the ambassador.
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4
noun
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.
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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.