Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for VAL'ET
VA-LE'RI-ANVAL-E-TU-DI-NA'RI-AN, or VALE-TU'DI-NA-RY
VAL'ET, n. [Fr.; formerly written vadlet, valect, vallet, &c.]
- A waiting servant; a servant who attends on a gentleman's person.
- In the manege, a kind of goad or stick armed with a point of iron. – Cyc. Valet de chambre. [vala de shombre; Fr.] A footman.
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