Word Study
creamery
CIDE DICTIONARY
creamery, n. [CF. F. crmeric.].
- A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market. [1913 Webster]
- A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream. [1913 Webster]
- An establishment where cream is sold. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
creamery, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a factory producing butter and cheese.
2 a shop where milk, cream, etc., are sold; a dairy.
1 a factory producing butter and cheese.
2 a shop where milk, cream, etc., are sold; a dairy.
Etymology
CREAM, after F cr{eacute}merie
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