valetryn.
/ˈvalɪtri/ Valets collectively; the office or quality of a valet.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > valet > collective or company of
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1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 244 Hospitals for decayed valetry and dependents of ministerial land-owners.
1853 G. P. R. James Agnes Sorel I. ix. 191 The cutler..could not forbear some grumbling observations upon valets and valetry.
1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare 97 Work fitter for ushers and embalmers and the general valetry or varletry of Church and State.
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