: marked by special care or attention : meticulous
white-glove service

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The staff uniforms—double-button jackets, waistcoats, and peaked caps in a shade almost midnight blue—mirror those of the 1930s, as does the quintessential white-glove service (minus actual white gloves), a living tribute to an age when train travel was more often elegant. Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 5 Nov. 2025 Plus, many offer free white-glove delivery and remove your old mattress and packaging for you, like Saatva. Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2025 Representing creatives behind such iconic TV shows and series as Bridgerton, The Handmaid’s Tale and Family Guy, Burke has recently been heavily invested in updating the company’s tech security to ensure the privacy, safety and trust of its white-glove clients. Trey Williams, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025 More than a century later, the 129-room hotel—the first that Swiss hotelier César Ritz permitted to use his name—still has the same sparkle, thanks to the white-glove service and the deep sense of history that fills the opulent common spaces. Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for white-glove

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First Known Use

1979, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of white-glove was in 1979

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“White-glove.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white-glove. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.

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