mazagran
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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)
- 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.