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gar⋅çon

  [gar-sawn]
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–noun, plural -çons  [-sawn] . French.
1. (usually in direct address) a waiter in a restaurant.
2. a boy or a young unmarried man.
3. a male employee or servant.
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gar·çon   (gär-sôɴ')   
n.   pl. gar·çons (-sôɴ')
A waiter.

[French, from Old French garçun, servant, accusative of gars, boy, soldier, probably of Germanic origin.]
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Word Origin & History

garçon 
"boy," c.1303, from O.Fr. garçun (11c.), originally objective case of gars, perhaps from Frank. *wrakjo (cf. O.H.G. recko, O.S. wrekkio "a banished person, exile;" Eng. wretch). Meaning "waiter" (especially one in a Fr. restaurant) is from 1788.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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