(n.) A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant.
(n.) A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron.
Example Sentences:
(1) McQueen told this tale several times – the words varied from “McQueen was here” to more profane messages, between tellings – and so, years later, Anderson & Sheppard asked the prince’s valet for the suits of that era back, in order to examine the linings.
(2) Do you hand over your keys to a valet parking service at the airport before flying off on holiday?
(3) Lee Suthern, McCoy's valet I shall be looking after his saddles and the weights that go in them, his colours, making sure his equipment's all nice and safe.
(4) In training ground car parks where the football stars of the 1970s were doing well to park a Cortina, it is common now to see Bentleys and Porsches being lathered and valeted by young lads, ready for when the top players finish training and come back out.
(5) Accordingly, the ghost is advised never to forget that, at the end of the day, he or she ranks somewhere between a valet and a cleaner.
(6) At the same time, packed hampers and bottles of "royal" home made orange vodka, made from Seville oranges, courtesy of the king of Spain, would be despatched to a secluded log cabin by attentive valets and royal stewards, all sporting pristine thorn-proof apparel.
(7) The assertion that the estate is inseparable from Charles has allowed him to use its gross profits to fund private and official spending including 26 valets, gardeners and farm staff.
(8) The same year, in October, another member called police to report that a club parking valet had stolen her $800 gold chain and intended to press charges.
(9) The Liberal Democrats have no serious future as a party if they continue to act as the blame-takers and valets for David Cameron's Conservatives.
(10) While in Washington, he got to know many who had worked at the White House and elsewhere with their own fragment of history – valets, housekeepers, cooks, secretaries, secret service agents, groundskeepers, and others.
(11) He was a better military commander than he was an artist but Dwight D Eisenhower's oil painting of the south London house where he lived while planning the D-day landings is to be auctioned 65 years after he first painted it for his valet.
(12) The 187 articles of royal memorabilia to be auctioned by Christie's in Rome are the property of the couple's elderly Italian former valet and were apparently passed to him by his uncle and aunt who served as domestic staff for nearly 40 years.
(13) You could have 20 black actors in a film all playing valets, and you would merely underline an idea of white superiority.
(14) You could be left with a large bill: research by comparison site Gocompare.com found that half of all insurance policies do not cover damage to a vehicle while it is in the control of valet parking.
(15) He first heard of Spinlister when the site sponsored a bike valet at a Brooklyn Bridge Park concert and has since had two rentals, including a pair from Australia.
(16) Scott Kelly, Gocompare's head of car insurance, said: "Valet parking, once the preserve of Hollywood movies, is becoming a popular option in the UK with many airports, major hotels and entertainment venues now offering 'meet and greet' services.
(17) The latest cache of royal correspondence to emerge from a former servant is to be auctioned, without controversy, in Italy today when letters written by Edward VIII to Wallis Simpson 70 years ago are sold by the couple's valet.
(18) Clearly, delivering healthcare is more complex and safety critical than selling burgers or hotel rooms but it was fascinating to hear at this month's Nuffield Trust Summit how much emphasis the best US healthcare organisations put on managing their customer experience (valet parking at their hospitals was my favourite).
(19) They believed the modernising task was complete by 2008: a quick valet service and tune-up rather than fundamental change.
(20) I had to explain to my very nice valet that I'd been dressing myself for 40 years and I could manage.
Vassal
Definition:
(n.) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
(n.) A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave.
(a.) Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
(v. t.) To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
Example Sentences:
(1) A eurozone nakedly dominated by one state, Germany, enforcing destructive austerity on its vassals with such brutality, can have no enduring legitimacy.
(2) Data previously obtained (Tartakoff, A.M., and P. Vassalli.
(3) Does it occur to you that this process is totalitarian and that you behave as if the hundreds of thousands of teachers, parents, students and academics involved in education are your vassals?
(4) Another significant reason that Kenyan forces may be trying to create in Somalia a vassal state – or "buffer zone", as the Kenyan government prefers to call it – is to protect its own projects.
(5) The disputed subtropical archipelago lies between Japan and Taiwan, and in the course of its history was a vassal state of China , paying tribute for years before coming under Japanese sovereignty.
(6) They pointed out that the kingdom had previously been a Chinese vassal state, adding that the ruling Qing dynasty had been too weak to resist Japan's advance.
(7) He said such a situation would fail to give the sovereignty over laws and borders that people wanted through the leave vote, he said, adding: “To adopt the Norwegian situation would be to become a vassal state, because you actually end up paying money into the EU budget but you have less control over the regulations than you do now with a seat round the table.” The question of the single market is opening up another potential divide for Labour after Corbyn also insisted the UK would have to leave the grouping when Brexit takes place.
(8) Farm subsidies are the 21st century equivalent of feudal aid: the taxes medieval vassals were forced to pay their lords for the privilege of being sat upon.
(9) Gardiner also used the interview to claim that the UK would become a “vassal state” if it tried to replicate Norway, which has unfettered access to single market through its membership of the European Economic Area.
(10) The party believed Scotland was theirs for keeps, that voters could go nowhere else (whoops); and, in turn, Westminster Labour saw Scottish Labour as its vassal, too.
(11) We now want to focus also on cultural tourism, valorising our archaeological sites like Carthage, El Jam and the Bardo National Museum, where the richest collection of Roman mosaics in the world is kept.” Much of the compound was designed by and for the Beys, vassal-kings who ruled the area on behalf of the Ottoman empire from the early 18th century.
(12) Measurements of leukocyte enzymes confirm the findings of Vassalli et al.
(13) It wasn't all wrath and fury – although Putin made sure to point out that the US feared Russia's geographical size and its nuclear arsenal and "didn't want allies, but vassals".
(14) Here, Benedita Rocha, Pierre Vassalli and Delphine Guy-Grand discuss the rules of selection of extrathymic T cells, assess the possible role of these cells in the defence of epithelial integrity and their potential role in autoimmune disease.
(15) Editors, two of whose journalists had been jailed at the time of the scandal concerning the Soviet spy John Vassall, were reluctant to cross the Macmillan government again.
(16) The participants include not just practicing architects – such as the French duo Lacaton & Vassal, masterminds of the barely-there Palais de Tokyo in Paris – but also artists (like Pedro Reyes) and hybrid outfits such as the Turner Prize-nominated collective Assemble.
(17) Several cell types display binding sites for [125I]urokinase (Vassalli, J.-D., D. Baccino, D. Belin.