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.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth

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