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Word entry · 5 letters

valet

Best crossword clue

"Hotel parker"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈvæleɪ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aeltvStarts with VEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
1V2A3L4E5T

Definitions

  1. serve as a personal attendant to

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • You can valet me, can you? Bother valeting me! I like to put on my own clothes, and brush them, too, when they are on; and if I only knew how to black my own boots, by George I should like to do it!
  • […] the red-haired boy who had valeted me in the morning appeared in a plain suit of black.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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