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en garçon

en garçon adverb: as a bachelor, or as if one were a bachelor; without one's wife.

Adverb

en garçon (not comparable)

  1. As a bachelor, or as if one were a bachelor; without one's wife.
    • "Were Lady Shropshire and Lady Silverlake there?"
      “Oh, no!—the husbands are doing Paris en garçon."
      "How very horrid!" she decides. "You wouldn't care to go about en garçon, would you, my own?”
      "Certainly not," he answers fervently. But he has made up his mind to go out en garçon all the same.1887, Mrs. [wife of?] Alexander Fraser, “Drifting”, in Daughters of Belgravia, volume 3, London: F. V. White & Co., page 116
    • “Of course, we talked over your delightful dinner-party of last night,” he said, “and agreed in the agreeableness of it. And she asked me to dine there, en garçon, on Tuesday next. Of course, I said I must consult you first; […] But if there was nothing going on, I promised to dine there en...1912, E. F. Benson, chapter IV, in Mrs. Ames, Toronto; London: The Musson Book Company Limited; Hodder and Stoughton, pages 97-98

Origin of en garçon

Borrowed from French en garçon.

Questions about en garçon

What does en garçon mean?
En garçon means as a bachelor, or as if one were a bachelor; without one's wife.
What part of speech is en garçon?
En garçon is an adverb.

Words near en garçon in the dictionary

  1. en face
  2. en famille
  3. en femme
  4. en flute
  5. en garde
  6. en garçon
  7. en homme
  8. en mass
  9. en masse
  10. en pantoufles
  11. en papillote

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