milking parlor
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of milking parlor
First recorded in 1945–50
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Nearby, workers herded some of the animals onto a rotating platform within the farm’s milking parlor and quickly attached pumping equipment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
One of the two people who had antibodies worked in the farm’s cafeteria adjacent to the milking parlor — alongside farmworkers but not cattle.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2024
On a brisk December morning, Mr. Mehuren and one of his daughters were milking their Holsteins in the small milking parlor, in six shifts of eight cows.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
This includes bathrooms, the expo hall and the milking parlor.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2021
“He let me use the ladder to wad the bell. Then he must of give Tansy a cowbell from the milking parlor to even the score. He was playing fair again.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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