freddo
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A cold coffee drink served over ice, popular in Italy and Greece
- noun
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freddo
- On a hot summer day, enjoying a freddo under the shade is refreshing.
Examples
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After lunch, he likes to relax with a freddo and read his book.
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She ordered a freddo at the café and savored the rich coffee flavor.
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I mean "freddo".
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At another table in the cafe, a thin, weary-looking woman in her forties slowly stirred a murky brown cafe freddo and puffed on a tapered cigar.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
iced coffee
vsfreddo
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Cold coffee served with ice, often with milk or syrup
is a regional cold coffee served over ice, popular in Italy and Greece
Frappuccino
vsfreddo
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A cold sweet coffee drink blended with ice and often topped with whipped cream
is a generic regional cold coffee rather than a branded sweet beverage
ice coffee
vsfreddo
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Coffee that is served cold with ice, often with milk or cream
is a regional chilled coffee not necessarily strong or sweet
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9.1
A cold blended coffee drink made with ice and milk
is served over ice but not defined as blended or necessarily sweet
How Cold
freddo
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9.3
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9.3
hot coffee
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word freddo as a drink name comes from Italian freddo and the Latin frigidus, meaning 'cold', so think of English frigid or 'refrigerator' — a freddo is a cold coffee drink served over ice.