dairy
[dair-ee]
- an establishment, as a room, building, or buildings, where milk and cream are kept and butter and cheese are made.
- a shop or company that sells milk, butter, etc.
- the business of a dairy farm, concerned with the production and treatment of milk and cream and the manufacture of butter and cheese.
- dairy farm.
- milk, or products made from or containing milk; dairy products, as butter and cheese: He avoids red meat, processed foods, and dairy in his diet.
- (in Jewish dietary law) foods, including all milk products, eggs, fish, vegetables, etc., that may be eaten at a meal in which milk is served, in contrast to meat and meat products, which may not.
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- of or relating to a dairy or a dairy farm.
- relating to or for milk, cream, butter, cheese, etc.: dairy products; the dairy case at a supermarket.
- (in Jewish dietary law) of or relating to dairy, in contrast to meat and meat products.
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Origin of dairy
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Contemporary Examples
A few weeks after returning from England, I was trolling the dairy section and came across the Cotswold Double Gloucester.
Like Lent, the season of Advent was a period of reflection and fasting, and items such as dairy and sugar were forbidden.
Mixing meat and dairy is a kosher rule-breaker, so they switched the cheese for potatoes.
“I had no sugars, no dairy, I had no carbs,” James announced with pride.
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The inability to refrigerate has meant the end of perishables in Mosul such as meat and dairy.
Historical Examples
Another, fitted up as a dairy, was hardly less of a picture.
In the Heart of VosgesMatilda Betham-Edwards
If this be done constantly, the evil will be effectually cured: if not, it will be owing to the neglect of the dairy maid.
First there is the dairy business, which I have already spoken of.
Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2)William Delisle Hay
This is rather common in dairy pastures and is found from May to September.
The Mushroom, Edible and OtherwiseM. E. Hard
And Pete was clambering up the wall by the side of the dairy window.
The ManxmanHall Caine
dairy
- a company that supplies milk and milk products
- a shop that sells provisions, esp milk and milk products
- NZa shop that remains open outside normal trading hours
- a room or building where milk and cream are stored or made into butter and cheese
- (modifier)of or relating to the production of milk and milk productsdairy cattle
- (in combination)a dairymaid; a dairyman
- food containing milk or milk productsshe can't eat dairy
- (as modifier)dairy produce
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Word Origin
C13 daierie, from Old English dǣge servant girl, one who kneads bread; see dough, lady
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Word Origin and History for dairy
n.
late 13c., "building for making butter and cheese; dairy farm," formed with Anglo-French -erie affixed to Middle English daie (in daie maid "dairymaid"), from Old English dæge "kneader of bread, housekeeper, female servant" (see dey (n.1)). The purely native word was dey-house.
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