valet

Meanings

Noun

• A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
• A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
• (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.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• butler , gentleman's gentleman

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from ML., diminutive of Late Latin vassallus ("manservant, domestic, retainer"), from vassus, from Gaulish *wassos ("young man, squire"), from Proto-Celtic *wastos ("servant") (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).