mazagran

English

Etymology

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

Noun

mazagran (plural mazagrans)

1. A long cold coffee beverage with lemon, ice, and sometimes sugar, rum or water, served in a tall glass.
   • 1883, A cup of coffee, page 35:

     Coffee, in the vocabulary of the place, may be called for in the shape of a demi-tasse, a capucin, or a mazagran.

   • 1909, “The Coffee”, in Puck:

     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.

Translations

Translations

• Polish: mazagran (pl) m