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Vinony

garçon

noun

  1. person who attends to customers by serving them food and drink
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Pronunciation: /ɡɑː(ɹ)ˈsɒn/ / /ɡɑː(ɹ)ˈsɒ̃/

noun

Etymology: From French garçon m (1788), from Old French garçon, oblique case of gars (“servant”), from Medieval Latin garciō m, from Frankish *wrakkjō (“servant, boy”), from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô (“exile, driven one”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to drive”). Cognate with Old High German wrecheo, recko (“exile, warrior, hero”) (Modern German Recke), Old Saxon wrekkio (“a banished person, exile, stranger”), Old English wreċċa (“a wretch, stranger, exile”), and perhaps to Old Norse rekkr (“man, warrior, hero”). More at wretch, wreak.

  1. A male waiter (especially at a French restaurant).