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Did such virgins employ valets? (6)

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vestal

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'did such virgins' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs can occasionally mean the same thing.

'employ valets?' is the wordplay.
'employ' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'employing' mean this (letters employed or used differently)).
'valets' is an anagram of 'VESTAL'.

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(Other definitions for vestal that I've seen before include "Modest female" , "Like virgins of old" , "Fat for candles/soap" , "Chaste (Roman priestess)" , "Consecrated Roman virgin" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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