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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.


Etymology

Origin of milking parlor

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

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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

This includes bathrooms, the expo hall and the milking parlor.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2021

They guide the cows to pumps in the 12-stall milking parlor, where they produce 3,800 pounds of milk in each of the herd’s two daily milkings.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2017

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

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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