granitan.
a. = granite n. 2.
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1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxiii. 232 People at small tables [in Venice], smoking and taking granita (a first cousin to ice-cream).
1963 Times 14 Jan. 11/5 No account of Italian sweets would be complete without mention of the ices, and of these the simplest and perhaps the best are the granite, sorbets or water ices.
1970 A. L. Simon & R. Howe Dict. Gastron. 205/1 In Italy granita heralds the first sign of summer.
b. An iced drink.
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granita1968
1968 R. Collin Locust on Wind iii. 25 A tall glass of granite, crushed ice in fresh lemon juice.
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