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
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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
Now I had paid away my last sous to the garçon d'écurie at the Poste: so I told them pettishly that I had not a liard to give.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
The good lady of the house came out to welcome me, and the garçon was ready at the step.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
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
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
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
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
He calls the Tuileries, Tully_rees_; the Jardin des Plantes, the Garden dis Plants; the guillotine, gully_teen_; and the garçons of the cafés, gassons.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
I have inquired of the garçons, and of Monsieur Jules there, who forgets no one.
From A Maker of History by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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