Cooled or covered with ice. Served very cold, often with ice cubes added.
From ice (Old English īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsaz) + -ed suffix. The culinary sense of serving drinks with ice became common in the 19th century with the development of mechanical refrigeration.
The concept of iced drinks was once a luxury available only to the wealthy who could afford to harvest and store natural ice. The phrase 'iced coffee' represents a relatively modern innovation that has become so standard we forget how revolutionary adding ice to beverages once was.
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