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valets-de-place

valets-de-place is the plural of valet-de-place.

Meaning of valet-de-place

Noun

valet-de-place (plural valets-de-place)

  1. (historical) In France, a person who offered his services as a guide, messenger, etc. for hire, especially to strangers.
    • I therefore added to my own English servants […] a Frenchman, who had formerly served me as valet de place, and of whom I had a very good opinion.1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 383

Questions about valets-de-place

What is valets-de-place the plural of?
Valets-de-place is the plural of valet-de-place.

Words near valets-de-place in the dictionary

  1. valetism
  2. valetry
  3. valets
  4. valets de chambre
  5. valets-de-chambre
  6. valets-de-place
  7. Valetta
  8. valetude
  9. valetudinaria
  10. valetudinarian
  11. valetudinarianism

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