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‖ valet-de-chambre|valɛ də ʃɑ̃br|
Also 7 valett-, 7–8 valette; 7 vally, 8 vale; 8 valet de shamber, 8–9 valet de sham, 9 valley-de-sham.
[F., lit. ‘chamber-valet’.]
= valet n. 1.
α1646Chas. I Lett. to Q. Henrietta M. (Camden) 60 One Dubose, valett-de-chambre to the Queen Regent. 1655Nicholas P. (Camden) II. 291 There finding a valet de chambre attending, the Marquis wild him to tell the prince I was there. 1711Addison Spect. No. 106 ⁋2 You would take his Valet de Chambre for his Brother. 1764Foote Patron ii. 31 It has been said, and I believe with some shadow of truth, that no man is a hero to his valet de chambre. 1782V. Knox Ess. No. 32. 147, I dare say, you remember a shrewd remark of a writer, whose name I cannot recollect, That no great man ever appeared great in the eyes of his valet de chambre. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. xxviii, With noiseless tread two valets-de-chambre advanced into the room. 1862H. Aïdé Carr of C. III. 36 Though our valets-de-chambre know us to be no heroes, it is clearly their interest to make us appear such in the eyes of the world.
β1678in Pollock Popish Plot App. B. (1903) 384 A vally de chambre to the Lord Bellasis. 1709O. Dykes Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 135 By the conversation of an illiterate Coxcomb of a Vale De Chambre. 1776Foote Capuchin i. Wks. 1799 II. 384 His old shopman, whom he keeps as his valet de sham. 1791O'Keeffe Wild Oats i. i, I wish you hadn't made me your valet de shamber. 1853W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) IV. 124 The door was opened by Mr. Gray's factotum and valley-de-sham Phil.
Hence valet-de-chambreship.
1779J. Moore View Soc. Fr. (1793) I. 14 His dexterity and intelligence in the science of valet-de-chambreship. |