Crossword clues for valet
valet
- Parking lot worker
- Parking lot runner, perhaps
- Parking helper
- Parker with tips
- Parker at the hotel
- One working a lot?
- Mans man?
- Keeper of the keys
- First person you see at some fine restaurants
- Double-parker who gives out tickets
- Country club worker
- Clothes rack
- ___ parking
- __ parking
- Suit tender
- Restaurant worker who's rarely in the restaurant
- Professional car parker
- Person to whom you may give your Soul?
- Person paid to park cars
- Person at a restaurant who parks your car
- Party parker
- Parking type
- Parking ticket issuer?
- Parking choice
- Parker with a lot of keys
- Parker that's paid
- Parker for hire
- Parker at a restaurant
- Parker at a hotel
- Parker at a banquet
- One who issues parking tickets?
- One who holds the key?
- One paid to park cars
- One moving to a lot
- Man's man
- Man's man-servant
- Man servant
- Key worker at a restaurant?
- Key person at a hotel?
- Job for Mr. parker?
- Jeeves, e.g
- Helpful attendant
- He'll take your car
- Gent's gent
- Fancy restaurant employee
- Fancy parking option
- Employee who parks
- Employee at a fine restaurant
- Driver in a "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" gag
- Clothing rack
- Classy restaurant employee
- Catering hall worker
- Catering hall parker
- Castle employee
- Butler's confrere
- "Downton Abbey" servant
- "Downton Abbey" extra, maybe
- Passepartout, to Phileas Fogg
- Person with the keys
- Man's manservant
- Restaurant employee who works a lot?
- Hotel employee
- Sayers's Bunter, e.g.
- Outdoor employee at a restaurant
- Jacket holder
- Person to give your car keys to
- A man's man
- "Key" employee
- Parker in the hotel business
- Gentleman's gentleman
- Car parker at a nice restaurant
- Jeeves, for one
- Country club employee
- Garage employee
- Person who may work a lot
- Parking meeter?
- One whose job is to park 25-Across
- A manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
- Batman's cousin
- Manservant
- Coat rack
- Domestic staff member
- Attendant
- Type of parking
- Batman's kin
- Kind of parking
- "No man is a hero to his ___"
- Man's attendant
- Man having beer in Vermont
- Male attendant
- Clothing stand
- Servant's farewell to Turkish leader
- Personal attendant
- Jeeves, for example, introduces Glen to tango
- Car service person
- Parking pro
- Hotel staffer
- Parking attendant
- Clothes holder
- Key holder
- Kato's job for Britt Reid
- Parking-lot attendant
- One who drives around a lot?
- Parking lot attendant
- Man's servant
- Lot attendant
- Worker with many keys
- Professional parker
- Parking lot figure
- Parking lot employee
- Pro parker
- Person who's paid to park cars
- Parking option
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Valet \Val"et\ (?; 277), n. [F. valet, OF. vallet, varlet, vaslet. See Varlet, and Vassal.]
A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant.
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(Man.) A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron.
Valet de chambre[F.], a body servant, or personal attendant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"personal man-servant," mid-14c. (late 12c. as a surname), from Old French valet, variant of vaslet "man's servant, workman's assistant," originally "squire, young man, youth of noble birth" (12c.), from Gallo-Roman *vassellittus "young nobleman, squire, page," diminutive of Medieval Latin vassallus, from vassus "servant" (see vassal). Modern sense is usually short for valet de chambre; the general sense of "male household servant of the meaner sort" going with the variant form varlet. First recorded use of valet parking is from 1959.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance. 2 A hotel employee performing such duties for guests. 3 (''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. 4 A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him. 5 A person employed to clean or park cars. 6 A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing. 7 A kind of goad or stick with an iron point. vb. (context transitive English) To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.
WordNet
n. a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man]
v. serve as a personal attendant to
Wikipedia
Valet and varlet are terms for male servants who serve as personal attendants to their employer. In the Middle Ages and Ancien Régime, valet de chambre was a role for junior courtiers and specialists such as artists in a royal court, but the term "valet" by itself most often refers to a normal servant responsible for the clothes and personal belongings of an employer, and making minor arrangements.
In the United States, the term most often refers to a parking valet.
Usage examples of "valet".
Isabella and two for Joanna, a staff of esquires, clerks of pantry and butlery, chief cook, valets of larder and kitchen, valets de chambre, water- carriers, candle-bearers, porters, grooms, and other attendants.
Her old man does the valeting and butling, her ma cooks, and Elsie hands out the cap and apron dope.
He came to offer me the services of his young brother Petronio during my stay in Ancona, instead of my engaging a valet de place.
He returned in a short time, and the valet came in again with him without having been called.
At Naples he had cheated the Chevalier de Morosini by persuading him to become his surety to the extent of six thousand ducats, and now he arrived in Florence in a handsome carriage, bringing his mistress with him, and having two tall lackeys and a valet in his service.
Hotel Cosmopolis, Archie, looking about him and revising earlier judgments, was inclined to think that of all his immediate circle he most admired Parker, the lean, grave valet of Mr.
When I got up my landlord brought me a valet de place, for whose character he said he could answer, and he then sent up an excellent dinner.
I therefore did not want to have at my heels a valet who might have injured rather than served me.
The valet, who did not know me, shewed me into a delightful boudoir near a closet in which there was a bath.
He received me in his dressing-room, where he was writing while his valet did his hair.
The valet did my hair, and the maid did my room, everything was changed, and I imagined that I had given the count a little lesson, and that I should have no more trouble with him.
And they took their valets with them -- just to give their boots a rub Ere they started operations on the Geebung Polo Club.
He was a bright young Italian, who had been valet to the Prince de la Catolica, the ambassador from Naples.
I left him and addressing myself to a sharp Italian page said that I would give two ducats to the valet who would furnish me with the names of the Cologne ladies who were in Bonn, and of the gentlemen who had accompanied them.
The valet told us that these manuscripts contained the history of the last Prussian war, and the king had been so annoyed by their accidentally getting burnt that he had resolved to have no more to do with the work.