valet
Meanings
Noun
1. a male attendant of a knight or a lord (historical)
2. officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre (historical)
3. a male servant, a footman
4. a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit
5. jack (card games)
6. a holdfast (a hooked tool to hold a workpiece down to a workbench) (especially in the form valet de menuisier)
Examples8
Joue le valet de cœur.
Play the jack of hearts.
J'avais un valet, un roi et trois dames en main.
I had a jack, a king and three queens in my hand.
Sois le maître de tes volontés et le valet de ta conscience !
Be the master of your will and the servant of your conscience!
Tel maître, tel valet.
As is the master, so is the servant.
Un paquet de cartes contient quatre rois, quatre dames et quatre valets.
A deck of cards has four kings, four queens, and four jacks.
Il existe quelqu'un de pire que le bourreau, c'est son valet.
A person worse than the torturer exists: it's his assistant.