town milk

British

noun

milk treated by pasteurization for direct consumption, as opposed to dairy factory milk for the production of butter, cheese, etc

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In my mind's eye, I have the sea in a perpetual state of smallpox; and the chalk running downhill like town milk.

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For there was something about the taste of the town milk that scunnered us—Freddie especially being more delicately stomached than I. Here, too, was a red-cheeked serving maid who provoked us—but more especially poor Fred, who asked nothing better than that the wench should let him alone.

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