valet
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He has recently developed a mobile app to make bookings for a barber's shop and a valet parking app for a Saudi client.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
A hero obligingly appears in the shape of Charlie Wells, valet to one of the aristocratic guests visiting Marlecombe Park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
And a $10 charge for trash hauling and $15 for valet trash service, on top of several other fees.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
On the Fine and Country website, the property is listed as having seven en-suite bedrooms, a valet car garage and a large drawing room.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
The valet bowed as he retreated from the room.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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The valets in the lobby summon golf carts with a flick of the wrist, graciously driving me back and forth from the parking lot.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
The old valets who were let go during the pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Instead, he plowed money into services such as ski valets, who wear yellow jackets and help guests carry their gear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
"From valets to duchesses, from three-piece suits to the Roaring Twenties, there is something for every taste," it boasts on its website.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
And reflecting this unease, the visiting valets and footmen appeared to regard one another with marked coldness and my own staff were rather glad to be too busy to spend much time with them.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Besides having a lovely meal, I valeted my car with ease, which allowed me to stroll down the block for a post-dinner constitutional without having to remember which public garage I parked in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
But he only checked the ticket on 2 February after finding it when he had to clear his car out before it was valeted.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2023
There was plenty of street parking on Thursday night outside of Il Bacco Italian restaurant in Little Neck, Queens, but we valeted the car anyway.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2023
Garage parking in Manhattan is almost universally valeted, which, on the one hand, provides some measure of security — but also evokes the valet joyride scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
From The Verge ● Jul. 26, 2015
I laughingly disassociated myself from any such intention, and, putting the curb on my curiosity, I turned him over to Wilson to be valeted out of the semblance to a tramp.
From The Motor Pirate by G. Sidney Paternoster
Instead, Saleh recalled shoveling snow and valeting cars for the actual guests.
From Fox News ● Dec. 2, 2021
Zykiah, 15, decided to set up the company after his family bought him a car valeting kit for Christmas.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2021
Liu and Awkwafina effortlessly riff off each other about the struggles of being the children of Asian and immigrant parents with high expectations, and often defend the valiant, underappreciated profession of valeting.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2021
Maybe that’s what angels do, valeting their wings at the end of a hard day’s flight.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2018
M. de Luxembourg was very pompous and very slow, and there was nothing that Lord Eglinton hated worse than what he called amateur valeting.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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