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
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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
Garcia, noticing his absence, went to his lodging, a small room on the fifth floor, and took the young student by the ear, saying, "Come along, méchant garçon, come and have your lesson."
From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by M. (Malcolm) Sterling Mackinlay
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 garçon smiles, as he conducts us to the garden, and introduces us to the resources of the immense tree in the centre.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 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
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
You petits garçons don’t mind all sorts of knocks about, but for one poor old man like me it is not good.”
From Ernest Bracebridge School Days by William I. Thomas
I called McCarthy, one of the French garçons, and asked him the cause of the conflict.
From The Four Million by O. Henry
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