milking parlor

American  

noun

1. a room in or attached to a barn on a modern dairy farm maintained exclusively for the mechanical milking of cows.

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Etymology

Origin of milking parlor

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Others went to the milking parlor twice a day as usual.

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Jaya pressed a button on the side of the milking parlor and the door hummed open.

From Literature

The milking parlor was shaking violently.

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“I am afraid the tornado destroyed much of the farm, including the milking parlor.”

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There was the enormous dairy barn, the milking parlor, the workshop, the machine shed.

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