"en garçon" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French en garçon.",
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          "ref": "1887, Mrs. [wife of?] Alexander Fraser, “Drifting”, in Daughters of Belgravia, volume 3, London: F. V. White & Co., page 116",
          "roman": "\"Certainly not,\" he answers fervently. But he has made up his mind to go out en garçon all the same.",
          "text": "\"Were Lady Shropshire and Lady Silverlake there?\"\n“Oh, no!—the husbands are doing Paris en garçon.\"\n\"How very horrid!\" she decides. \"You wouldn't care to go about en garçon, would you, my own?”",
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          "ref": "1912, E. F. Benson, chapter IV, in Mrs. Ames, Toronto, London: The Musson Book Company Limited; Hodder and Stoughton, pages 97-98",
          "text": "“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.”\nThat 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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        "As a bachelor, or as if one were a bachelor; without one's wife."
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  "word": "en garçon"
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French en garçon.",
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          "roman": "\"Certainly not,\" he answers fervently. But he has made up his mind to go out en garçon all the same.",
          "text": "\"Were Lady Shropshire and Lady Silverlake there?\"\n“Oh, no!—the husbands are doing Paris en garçon.\"\n\"How very horrid!\" she decides. \"You wouldn't care to go about en garçon, would you, my own?”",
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          "text": "“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.”\nThat 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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