Valet vs. Varlet

Valetnoun

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

Valetnoun

A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.

Valetnoun

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

Valetnoun

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

Valetnoun

A person employed to clean or park cars.

Valetnoun

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

Valetnoun

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

Valetnoun

A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.

Valetverb

(transitive) To serve (someone) as a valet.

Valetverb

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

Valetverb

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

Valetnoun

A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on a gentleman's person; a body servant.

Valetnoun

A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron.

Valetnoun

a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer;

Valetverb

serve as a personal attendant to

Valetnoun

a man's personal male attendant, who is responsible for his clothes and appearance.

Valetnoun

a hotel employee who attends to the clothes of guests

Valetnoun

a person employed to clean or park cars

Valetverb

act as a valet to (a particular man)

Valetverb

work as a valet.

Valetverb

clean (a car), especially on the inside

Valet

A valet or varlet is a male servant who serves as personal attendant to his employer. In the Middle Ages and Ancien Régime, valet de chambre was a role for junior courtiers and specialists such as artists in a royal court, but the term by itself most often refers to a normal servant responsible for the clothes and personal belongings of an employer, and making minor arrangements.

Varletnoun

(obsolete) A servant or attendant.

Varletnoun

(historical) Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood.

Varletnoun

(archaic) A rogue or scoundrel.

Varletnoun

The jack.

Varletnoun

A servant, especially to a knight; an attendant; a valet; a footman.

Varletnoun

Hence, a low fellow; a scoundrel; a rascal; as, an impudent varlet.

Varletnoun

In a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack.

Varletnoun

a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

Varletnoun

in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood