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dairy
Part of speech: NounA place where milk is kept and converted into butter and cheese; a shop where milk, butter, and cheese are sold.
Usage examples "dairy":- About five or half- past another clattering tells of the milkers' return; and then the dairy is in full operation. - "Wild Life in a Southern County", Richard Jefferies.
- She marched straight to the dairy, where Susannah was busy with the cream- pans, and says she, loosening her bonnet- strings as she dropped upon a bench, " He was but an orphan, after all, Susannah: and now we've driven 'en to desperation!" - "Merry-Garden and Other Stories", Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
- She and this Mrs. Blair, a sparse, umbrella of a woman with a very bitter kind of widowhood, had formed the noonday habit of taking a dairy lunch of milk and cereal at a near- by White Kitchen and of departing evenings for there, too, since it spelled strong, hot, simple foods and a very superior kind of cleanliness. - "Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl", Fannie Hurst.