valet de chambre

See also: valet-de-chambre

English

Noun

valet de chambre (plural valets de chambre)

1. Alternative form of valet-de-chambre.
   • 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:

     […] 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.

   • 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:

     In order to be sure that it was not some illusion, they called their valets de chambre; but no sooner had these appeared with their flambeaux, than the spectre disappeared.

   • 1973, Elizabeth Mayhew, My Son Charles, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published 1976, page 183:

     Toward nightfall her valet de chambre brought in a letter that he announced portentously came from the grande duchesse of Berg and Cleves.