Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mazagran

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: maza-gran
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: mazagran

Inflected Forms

mazagrans (plural)

Questions

What does mazagran mean?: A long cold coffee beverage with lemon, ice, and sometimes sugar, rum or water, served in a tall glass.
Where does mazagran come from?: It is traced to French.

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