garçon
(usually in direct address) a waiter in a restaurant.
a boy or a young unmarried man.
a male employee or servant.
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How to use garçon in a sentence
She swanned about in an elaborate pearl-embossed Comme des Garcons creation, oblivious to the intrusion.
When Kanye West and his sartorial cohorts left the Comme des Garcons show during Paris Fashion Week, it was business as usual.
The garcons were hurriedly driving the ponies to water, with much cracking of whips and outbursting of impatient oaths.
Indian Boyhood | [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. EastmanThe shrill voices of these petit garcons expressed our only bienvenue to France!
The Greater Love | George T. McCarthyThe French shook hands with them warmly, patted them on the shoulders, with many exclamations of "Braves garcons!"
Under Wellington's Command | G. A. Henty
We had not got out of sight of the inn, however, before one of its garcons was at our heels with a message from his mistress.
The Monikins | J. Fenimore CooperThe lights flash on, the can-canners take the floor, the garcons flit hither and yon, and all is excitement.
Europe Revised | Irvin S. Cobb
British Dictionary definitions for garçon
/ (ˈɡɑsɒn, French ɡarsɔ̃) /
a waiter or male servant, esp if French
Origin of garçon
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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