valet
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Christos, a valet at a major Athens hotel, was more irritated.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
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
When travelers arrive at the luxury terminal on the southern flank of LAX, they can valet their car and even get it washed while they’re away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
When a lady’s maid and a houseguest’s valet fall for each other, they form a plan to unite their incompatible employers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
He slumped in a wheelchair pushed by his valet.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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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
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
Poker girls are officially described as waitresses, and are hired along with other staff like bartenders, chefs and parking valets to work at poker parties in private homes.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
Dehydration left them so prone to overheating, even in mild weather, that their valets prepared huge bins of ice cubes into which they could flop to cool off.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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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
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
It applies to services too, like having your nails done or getting your car valeted.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2021
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
James, who in his time had valeted princes, after he had finished shaving him and had turned him out as only a well-trained English valet can, glanced with satisfaction at his work.
From L.P.M. : the end of the Great War by J. Stewart (John Stewart) Barney
They also outlined plans for investment in more EV charging points, as well as the offer in the forecourts around food-to-go and valeting services.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2024
Instead, Saleh recalled shoveling snow and valeting cars for the actual guests.
From Fox News ● Dec. 2, 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
So the w'y I look at it, there's naught for me but go on valeting until I'm too old; after that the money'll be a comfort, I dares'y….
From The Bronze Bell by Louis Joseph Vance
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