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English Dictionary: valet by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
valet
n
  1. a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"
    Synonym(s): valet, valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man
v
  1. serve as a personal attendant to
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Valet \Val"et\ (?; 277), n. [F. valet, OF. vallet, varlet,
      vaslet. See {Varlet}, and {Vassal}.]
      1. A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on
            gentleman's person; a body servant.
  
      2. (Man.) A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron.
  
      {[d8]Valet de chambre}[F.], a body servant, or personal
            attendant.
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