garçon
Americannoun
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(usually in direct address) a waiter in a restaurant.
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a boy or a young unmarried man.
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a male employee or servant.
noun
Etymology
Origin of garçon
C19: from Old French gars lad, probably of Germanic origin
Example Sentences
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Now garçon, if you'd be so kind, one one more sprinkle of that good stuff, si vous plait.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 11, 2018
She told him he was a bon garçon, and she meant it.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
She say, 'Bateese, vous garçon, vat you make dat splash on de floor?'
From In the Van; or, The Builders by Price-Brown, John
Then a fellow cannot live as he did en garçon, and all his friends drop him, and altogether it is an act no wise man would perpetrate.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
"Did you find them on the battle-ground, garçon?"
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Ingraham, Joseph Holt
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