Valet

Definition of valet:

part of speech: noun

A body- servant.

part of speech: noun

A servant: a man- servant, esp. one who attends on a gentleman's person.

part of speech: noun

A manservant who personally attends a man, taking care of his apartment, clothes, etc.

Usage examples for valet:

• My valet de chambre will attend to Professor Ivanoff's needs. "The Man from Home", Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson.

• He's the sort of man everyone instinctively asks advice of- me, you, his valet the farmer who meets him at a boundary fence, the fellow who sits nest him in a train- anyone. "The Price She Paid", David Graham Phillips.

• I took aside the valet who had lived with Glanville for some years, and who was remarkably attached to his master, and learnt, that somewhat more than an hour before. "Pelham, Complete", Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009.

• In later years the King grew tired of this, and a valet wrote up in the gallery the names of those who asked. "The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete", Duc de Saint-Simon.