valet.
a male attendant of a knight or a lord
Meaning & usage
a male attendant of a knight or a lord
officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre
a male servant, a footman
a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit
jack
a holdfast (a hooked tool to hold a workpiece down to a workbench)
Where this word comes from
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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