"valet de chambre" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: valets de chambre [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|valets de chambre}} valet de chambre (plural valets de chambre)
  1. Alternative form of valet-de-chambre. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: valet-de-chambre
    Sense id: en-valet_de_chambre-en-noun-N4ISGNk2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1789 May 27, [John Moore], “Buchanan’s Letter”, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 241:",
          "text": "[…] he came to this country in the ſervice of an Engliſh gentleman, whom he was obliged to quit through the malice of the valet de chambre, who taking advantage of the young man’s being overtaken with liquor on the laſt St. Andrew’s day, turned him off, on the pretext of his being an habitual drunkard.",
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          "ref": "1850, Augustine Calmet, translated by Henry Christmas, “Examination of the Apparition of a Pretended Spectre”, in The Phantom World: or, The Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, &c., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 237:",
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          "ref": "1973, Elizabeth Mayhew, My Son Charles, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published 1976, page 183:",
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