Word Finder - valet

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A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.

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A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.

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(professional wrestling) 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.

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A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.

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A person employed to clean or park cars.

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A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.

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A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.

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A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.

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To serve (someone) as a valet.

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To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.

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To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.

And my valet can go in your carriage.

The valet brought a woman's fox-lined cloak.

He passed off his keys to a valet.

She gave him a sidelong look as they waited for the valet.

Well, say your father has a German valet, and he is a splendid valet and satisfies your father's requirements better than you could, then it's all right to let him serve.

She waited till the valet had set down the coffee things and left the room.

Next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, Pierre was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand.

The necklace was given up. Rohan took it to the countess's house, where a man, in whom Rohan believed he recognized a valet of the queen, came to fetch it.

The valet opened the door, and she dropped into the passenger seat.

And go along with you... go, and he continued to put on the uniform the valet handed him.

She took it and walked with him through the house and to the valet.

We will take first a theory propounded by Andrew Lang in The Valet's Tragedy (1903).

The terms of his letter to Louvois (Feb 20, 1672) show that Saint-Mars wanted to use Dauger as a valet simply because he was not a valet.

That a person might be used as a valet who was not really a valet is shown by Louvois having told Saint-Mars in 1666 (June 4) that Fouquet's old doctor, Pecquet, was not to be allowed to serve him "soit dans sa profession, soit dans le mestier d'un simple valet."

The fact nevertheless that he was employed as a valet, even in special circumstances, for Fouquet, makes it difficult to believe that Dauger was a man of any particular social standing.

Gamier de Saint Yon was echevin of Paris in 1413 and 1419; Jean de Saint Yon, his brother, was valet de chambre of the dauphin Louis, son of King Charles VI.

Her success surpassing his expectations, his hopes took a higher flight, and through Lebel, valet de chambre of Louis XV., and the duc de Richelieu, he succeeded in installing her as mistress of the king.

His valet had orders to awake him every morning with the words, "Remember, monsieur le comte, that you have great things to do."

He was obliged to accept a laborious post, working nine hours a day for £40 a year, to live on the generosity of a former valet, and finally to solicit a small pension from his family.

His first preceptors were nothing but courtiers; and the most intelligent, his valet Laporte, developed in the royal childs mind his natural instinct of command, a very lively sense of his rank, and that nobly majestic air of master of the world which he preserved even in the commonest actions of his life.

There was valet parking for residents and visitors, and her car was – by far – the oldest and cheapest among those in the drive.

We offer a fully customizable valet on your vehicle, the prices on this site are a guide to our most popular valet services.

Additional facilities include valet, concierge and 24-hour room service.

It is very unusual for somebody to request parts of the exterior to be cleaned when having an interior valet.

These start with interior valets, up to our Prestige full valet.

It shows that the palace ignored legal advice to properly investigate the rape claim by former valet George Smith.

The 4 suites are 385 sqft with a balcony and separate living area and a personal valet.

In the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to Petersburg.

Standing on the doorstep is Jeeves, who's been sent by a domestic employment agency to be Bertie's new valet.

We also valet motorbikes, both modern and vintage.

Which ever level of car valet you choose, you can be assured of a service which is second to none.

The Tha Row boss has been charged for allegedly violating his parole conditions by punching a parking valet on 21 Jun.

The facilities include valet parking, game room, a lobby Internet kiosk, and secure, complimentary, underground parking.

His dramatic pieces, The Lying Valet, adapted from Motteux's Novelty Lethe (1740), The Guardian, Linco's Travels (1767), Miss in her Teens (1747), Irish Widow, &c., and his alterations and adaptations of old plays, which together fill four volumes, evinced his knowledge of stage effect and his appreciation of lively dialogue and action; but he cannot be said to have added one new or original character to the drama.

The page, or, as he was more anciently and more correctly called, the " valet " or " damoiseau," commenced his service and instruction when he was between seven and eight years old, and the initial phase continued for seven or eight years longer.

The diminutive form vasseletus, for the son of a vassal, after strange fortunes returned to something of its original sense of "household servant" in the modern "valet" (q.v.) (see also Vavassor).

With her imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet.

She did not sit down but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to go.

And a bed got ready, and tea? asked his valet.

The postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling Torzhok embroidery came into the room offering their services.

Not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the letters to Princess Mary's apartments, but did not find him there.

Anatole, with uniform unbuttoned, walked to and fro from the room where the witnesses were sitting, through the study to the room behind, where his French valet and others were packing the last of his things.

Joseph, his valet, handed him his sabretache and saber, and they all went out into the vestibule.

Another valet, with his finger over the mouth of a bottle, was sprinkling Eau de Cologne on the Emperor's pampered body with an expression which seemed to say that he alone knew where and how much Eau de Cologne should be sprinkled.

Old Daniel Terentich, the count's valet (as he was called), came up to the group and shouted at Mishka.

Sighs were heard, words of prayer, and the sobbing of the count's old valet.

Another man--Timokhin--was lying in a corner on the benches beneath the icons, and two others--the doctor and a valet--lay on the floor.

The valet sat up and whispered something.

She passed the valet, the snuff fell from the candle wick, and she saw Prince Andrew clearly with his arms outside the quilt, and such as she had always seen him.

They were accompanied by a doctor, Prince Andrew's valet, his coachman, and two orderlies.