Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To serve (someone) as a valet. · To clean and service (a car), as a valet does. · To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.
A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance. · A hotel employee performing such duties for guests. · 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. · A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.
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