mazagran
mazagran noun: a long cold coffee beverage with lemon, ice, and sometimes sugar, rum or water, served in a tall glass.
Noun
mazagran (plural mazagrans)
- A long cold coffee beverage with lemon, ice, and sometimes sugar, rum or water, served in a tall glass.
- Coffee, in the vocabulary of the place, may be called for in the shape of a demi-tasse, a capucin, or a mazagran.1883, A cup of coffee, page 35
- But the joy of life was to drop in at any hour during the day and call: "Pierre, a mazagran!" for Pierre was the waiter, Madame the cashier, and the mazagran was a large glass of that marvelous beverage, yclept coffee — yclept other, and maddening things.1909, “The Coffee”, in Puck
Forms of mazagran
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Origin of mazagran
Borrowed from French mazagran, named after the Algerian town of Mazagran, the site of a French victory in 1840.
Questions about mazagran
- What does mazagran mean?
- Mazagran means a long cold coffee beverage with lemon, ice, and sometimes sugar, rum or water, served in a tall glass.
- What part of speech is mazagran?
- Mazagran is a noun.
- What is the plural of mazagran?
- The plural of mazagran is mazagrans.
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