English▸ noun
1 a man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
▪ a hotel employee performing valet duties for guests:
[as modifier] a valet service.
▪ US a rack or stand on which to hang clothing.
2 North American a person employed to park cars:
he handed his keys to the parking valet
[as modifier] valet parking.
▸ verb
(valets, valeting, valeted)
[with object] act as a valet to (a particular man). ▪ [no object] work as a valet.
– ORIGIN late 15th century (denoting a footman acting as an attendant to a horseman): from French; related to vassal.