valetnoun/ˈvæleɪ/

• 1

  A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.

• 2

  A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.

• 3

  governmenthobbieslifestyleA female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.

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  A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.

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  A person employed to clean or park cars.

  • 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.
• 6

  A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.

• 7

  A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.

• 8

  A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.

valetverb/ˈvæleɪ/

• 1

  To serve (someone) as a valet.

  • 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.
• 2

  To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.

  • He revealed: “We had been through a lot and I decided the car needed to be cleaned out after Georgina had to deliver the baby in the car. “You can imagine the scene when I left the car in for valeting. I got some funny looks and I had to explain to the guy that I wasn’t up to anything illegal because it did look a bit like a crime scene.”
• 3

  To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.

  • I asked Giacomo if he ever valeted his car, and he twisted his face into a grimace as he replied, “Rarely, but I have done it. Nervous time.”
  • “‘Is this a date?’” Ms. Ludbrook recalled thinking during dinner. “I had valeted my car, and he hadn’t. He said, ‘Bye,’ and went to his car. Clearly this was not a date.”