creamery

[kree-muh-ree]

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noun, plural cream·er·ies.

a place where milk and cream are processed and where butter and cheese are produced.

a place for the sale of milk and its products.

a place where milk is set to form cream.

Origin of creamery

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75; cream + -ery

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Related Words for creamery

farm, buttery, factory, creamery

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Contemporary Examples of creamery

Sharpe Holdings Inc.* Missouri corporation that is involved in the farming, dairy, creamery, and cheese-making industries.
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Abby Haglage
June 30, 2014
Produced in the creamery adjacent to the milking parlor, Woodside Farm ice cream is more cream-sweet than sugar-sweet.
The Secret to This Ice Cream: Pampered Cows
Jane & Michael Stern
May 18, 2014
As of November of last year, the Creamery stopped offering “Sandusky Blitz.”
Penn State Goes Too Far in Its Purge of All Things Paterno
John Hendrickson
August 29, 2012

Historical Examples of creamery

All the persons who contracted the fever were supplied with milk from the creamery.
Rural Hygiene
Henry N. Ogden
He will never give you permission to plant a creamery there.
Lorimer of the Northwest
Harold Bindloss
But, with all due respect to Colonel Carrington, we intend to have the creamery.
Lorimer of the Northwest
Harold Bindloss
Lyle and several of the supporters of the creamery scheme awaited me there.
Lorimer of the Northwest
Harold Bindloss
After they left the milk at the creamery they drove down to the station and got the trunk.
Sunny Boy in the Country
Ramy Allison White

British Dictionary definitions for creamery

creamery

noun plural -eries

an establishment where milk and cream are made into butter and cheese

a place where dairy products are sold

a place where milk is left to stand until the cream rises to the top

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Word Origin and History for creamery

1808, from French crémerie, from crème (see cream (n.)).