Noun: mazagran
| Singular | mazagran |
| Plural | mazagrans |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like mazagran
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French mazagran, named after the Algerian town of Mazagran, the site of a French victory in 1840.