[f. VALET sb.] Valets collectively; the office or quality of a valet.
1806. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., IV. 244. Hospitals for decayed valetry and dependents of ministerial land-owners.
1853. G. P. R. James, Agnes Sorel, I. ix. 191. The cutler resumed his labour: but could not forbear some grumbling observations upon valets and valetry.
1880. Swinburne, Stud. Shaks., 97. Work fitter for ushers and embalmers and the general valetry or varletry of Church and State.
