Meaning of en garçon | Babel Free

Definitions

As a bachelor, or as if one were a bachelor; without one's wife.

not-comparable

Examples

“"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.”

““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 garçon.” That phrase had evidently taken Major Ames’ fancy; there was a ring of youth about it, and he repeated it with gusto.”

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