Masculine
valet
Meaning
- (masculine) a male attendant of a knight or a lord
- (masculine) officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre
- (masculine) a male servant, a footman
- (masculine) a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit
- (masculine) jack
- (especially, masculine) a holdfast (a hooked tool to hold a workpiece down to a workbench)
Concepts
varlet
Jack-tar
diddley
diddly-shit
diddlyshit
Synonyms
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/va.lɛ/
Etymology
Inherited from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from Latin vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).
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