valet

noun va·let \ ˈva-lət , ˈva-(ˌ)lā , va-ˈlā \

|Updated on: 20 Jun 2018

Examples: valet in a Sentence

Definition of valet

1 a : an employee (as of a hotel or a public facility) who performs personal services for customers

b : a man's male servant who performs personal services (such as taking care of clothing)

2 : a device (such as a rack or tray) for holding clothing or personal effects

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Recent Examples of valet from the Web

The West Hartford Bicycle Advisory Committee will offer a bicycle valet service at no cost, and will host a community bike ride for both children and adults at 7:15 a.m. on June 10.

— michael walsh, Courant Community, "Celebrate West Hartford Returns For 32nd Year," 9 June 2018
Some parking spaces will be tandem style and others will have the ability to raise one car to a higher level to accommodate another car on the bottom level, which would require valet service.

— alejandra reyes-velarde, latimes.com, "Parking and design approved for AC Hotel on Colorado," 26 May 2018
This indoor and outdoor party includes open bar, gourmet food, DJ and complimentary valet.

— sergio carmona, Jewish Journal, "Israel's Memorial Day, 70th birthday to be observed in Broward, Miami-Dade," 13 Apr. 2018
Their valet is on hand from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. helping with parking and retrieving vehicles, delivering groceries and packages, and assisting with dry cleaning, to name a few tasks.

— valerie sweeten, Houston Chronicle, "Condo Life: High-rise living means having top luxury, amenities," 24 Mar. 2018
Two years before the 2015 dustup with Brooks at a barbecue restaurant, Brown claimed she was knocked to the floor by a valet at the Waterfront Hotel in Jack London Square.

— matier & ross, San Francisco Chronicle, "Break for ex-Panther who sued Oakland: Jury didn’t hear about other dustups," 11 Feb. 2018
Australian media say the valet drove the soft-top Porsche Carrera under another vehicle Thursday outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Sydney.

— Fox News, "Hotel valet parks Porsche underneath car," 31 May 2018
That is money spent on convention meeting halls as well as hotel valets, restaurant cooks, waiters, taxi drivers, office supply merchants and others who do business around a convention center.

— hugo martin, latimes.com, "In the convention center arms race, Los Angeles plans to go big to take on Las Vegas and others," 11 May 2018
Steven Ohayon, head of global business development at Selina Without on-site parking, visitors to the Tower Hotel will have to valet, park in area lots or use alternative forms of transportation.

— chabeli herrera, miamiherald, "This Little Havana hotel once housed Billie Holiday. Soon, you could stay there, too. | Miami Herald," 13 Mar. 2018

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Origin and Etymology of valet

Middle English vadlet, valet, varlet "male servant, groom, knight's attendant," borrowed from Anglo-French, "young man of noble birth serving a lord, boy, servant," going back to Gallo-Romance *vassellittus, diminutive of *vassellus, diminutive of early Medieval Latin vassus "serf, servant, vassal" — more at vassal

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First Known Use: 14th century

in the meaning defined at sense 1b

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