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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
creamery
noun
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▪ Production of Dunlop cheese has now been commercialised in creameries and is confined almost exclusively to the islands of Arran and Islay.
▪ The local creamery refused to accept milk from the area as dust was floating in it.
▪ The sad decision to close down the creamery in Hawes means that you will not be made in the dale from now on.
▪ The truth is that despite the siting of the creamery it has probably not been made with local products for some time.
▪ They glass bottle creamery to hold.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Creamery

Creamery \Cream"er*y\ (-?r-?), n.; pl. Creameries (-?z). [CF. F. cr?meric.]

  1. A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.

  2. A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream.

  3. An establishment where cream is sold.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
creamery

1808, from French crémerie, from crème (see cream (n.)).

Wiktionary
creamery

n. A place where dairy products are prepared or sold.

WordNet
creamery

n. a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold

Wikipedia
Creamery

In a dairy, the creamery is the location of cream processing. Cream is separated from whole milk; pasteurization is done to the skimmed milk and cream separately. Whole milk for sale has had some cream returned to the skimmed milk.

The creamery is the source of butter from a dairy. Cream is an emulsion of fat-in-water; the process of churning causes a phase inversion to butter which is an emulsion of water-in-fat. Excess liquid as buttermilk is drained off in the process. Modern creameries are automatically controlled industries, but the traditional creamery needed skilled workers. Traditional tools included the butter churn and Scotch hands.

The term "creamery" is sometimes used in retail trade as a place to buy milk products such as yogurt and ice cream. Under the banner of a creamery one might find a store also stocking pies and cakes or even a coffeehouse with confectionery.

Usage examples of "creamery".

Another extremely interesting fact is the sudden development in Southern West Siberia of very numerous co-operative creameries for making butter.

Now, a great export trade, carried on by a Union of the Creameries, has grown out of their endeavours and more than a thousand co-operative shops have been opened in the villages.

Years before, at the beginning of the sixties, Buddy and I had been trying to grow psilocybin mushrooms in a cottage-cheese vat at the little creamery Daddy staked Buddy to after he got out of Oregon State.

I spoke enough Spanish and Buddy had enough creamery credentials that we talked them out of an E tank of nitrous.

Buddy and cousin Davy drive out in the creamery van with a load of plywood and we work the night away nailing it down.

There was one main street containing two blocks of stores, a blacksmith shop, a creamery and two churches.

A single truck clattered down the road and a man in blue denim walked toward the creamery carrying a lunch pail, otherwise it was as if he had the whole world to himself.

There the creamery and buttery, there the cozy home of Midhir and his wife Aevgrine, and there doored mounds over underground storage chambers.

The great barns were off to one side, with the creamery and cheese-house and cooling sheds where cherries and peaches from the orchards were stored.

Karl Von Vechten went to work as a butter maker at the Craig Creamery in Cedar Hill.

Soon, word of the ingenious cream containers had spread across the state, catching the fancy of dairy farmers and creamery owners from as far away as Wisconsin and Illinois.

Then that winter brought a series of increasingly violent accidents in--or acts of terrorism against--the Craig Creamery and Can Company of Cedar Hill, as it had come to be called.

The Craig Creamery and Can Company of Cedar Hill completely and utterly and perfectly destroyed.

Now, a great export trade, carried on by a Union of the Creameries, has grown out of their endeavours and more than a thousand co-operative shops have been opened in the villages.

Cooperative creameries and elevators in several States are said to have saved Grange members thousands of dollars.