Meanings
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 351 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
- Frenchmazagran
- Englishmazagran
Borrowed from French mazagran, named after the Algerian town of Mazagran, the site of a French victory in 1840.
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Polish mazagran
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mazagran. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mazagran
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