| 释义 |
‖ valet-de-place|valɛ də plas|
[F., lit. ‘place-servant’.]
A man who acts as a guide to strangers or tourists; a cicerone.
1750Chesterfield Lett. (1774) II. xiii. 52 You will have your coach,..your own footman, and a valet de place. 1792C. Smith Desmond III. 267 A Frenchman, who had formerly served me as valet de place. 1818Gentl. Mag. Nov. 4 6/2 We chose rather to stroll out alone, than to put ourselves under the direction of a valet-de-place. 1886Ruskin Time & Tide 62, I asked a valet-de-place at Meurice's what people were generally going to [for amusement]. |