valet-de-placen.
A man who acts as a guide to strangers or tourists; a cicerone.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > one who guides or leads > strangers or tourists
sightsmanc1660
xenagogue1674
ciceronea1719
valet-de-place1750
lionizer1829
provodnik1888
tourist guide1924
travel guide1934
1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 8 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1605 You will have your coach,..your own footman, and a valet de place.
1792 C. Smith Desmond III. 267 A Frenchman, who had formerly served me as valet de place.
1818 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 4 6/2 We chose rather to stroll out alone, than to put ourselves under the direction of a valet-de-place.
1886 J. Ruskin Time & Tide 62 I asked a valet-de-place at Meurice's what people were generally going to [for amusement].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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