mazagran

M3A1Z10A1G2R1A1N1

noun

A long cold coffee beverage with lemon, ice, and sometimes sugar, rum or water, served in a tall glass.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounmazagran (plural mazagrans)

plural mazagrans

  1. 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
    1 more example

    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

Origin

  1. Frenchmazagran
  2. Englishmazagran

Borrowed from French mazagran, named after the Algerian town of Mazagran, the site of a French victory in 1840.

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Translations

Polish mazagran
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APA

mazagran. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mazagran

MLA

“mazagran.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mazagran. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mazagran,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mazagran.

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