garçon
Americannoun
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garçons
plural
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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
Other Word Forms
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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
The landlady loves him, the femme de chambre blesses him, the garçon worships him.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
Simply because the feminine of garçon began to be used in a bad sense in the seventeenth century.
From English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by Max O'Rell
Help them, mon garçon, and I will be benefactor.’”
From Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn
The backdrop is a cubist cityscape; their hair is cropped in the manner of Parisian garçons; and their red lips and shaded eyes are thoroughly à la mode.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2018
Hardy shot to fame in the mid-1960s with a million-selling debut single, Tous les garçons et les filles, a song whose chorus, I suggest, had that lyrical sonority she rates so highly.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2018
But it was her self-penned song, Tous les garçons et les filles, that the radio stations and the public responded to.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2018
The calls of messieurs and the replies of garçons resolve themselves into a confused lulling sound.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
“Ah! vat you garçons do there?” exclaimed Monsieur Malin, for it was the French master, holding up his candle.
From Ernest Bracebridge School Days by William I. Thomas
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