noun / adjective
dairy
DAIR-ee/ˈderi/
The production and products of animal milk.
The dairy shop displays milk, butter, and cheese in its refrigerated counter.
Etymology
The word for a female household worker narrowed to a woman responsible for milking and making butter and cheese. With the place-forming suffix, it named a building for that work, later also a shop selling milk products.
In context
which is where milk from the herd cattle herd somewhere else was taken and turned into all the different dairy products like like butter and cheese and cream. >> The, dairy, was, the, domain, of, Lady, Darnley herself.
More examples
- She avoids dairy because milk products upset her stomach.
- Two local dairies supply milk to the school.
- Local dairy farmers milk their cows twice a day.
Forms
dairy · dairies
dairying noun — The business of producing milk and milk products.