milking parlor

noun

1. a room in or attached to a barn on a modern dairy farm maintained exclusively for the mechanical milking of cows.

Word History and Origins

Origin of milking parlor¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

One of the two people who had antibodies worked in the farm’s cafeteria adjacent to the milking parlor — alongside farmworkers but not cattle.

From Salon

On a brisk December morning, Mr. Mehuren and one of his daughters were milking their Holsteins in the small milking parlor, in six shifts of eight cows.

From New York Times

This includes bathrooms, the expo hall and the milking parlor.

From Seattle Times

On an overcast January day in Estelline, South Dakota, Jonathan Lundgren zips his quilted jacket over a fleece, pulls down a wool cap, and crunches through the snow on Blue Dasher Farm to his barn, a milking parlor that he has kitted out as a biochemical laboratory.

From National Geographic

Three times a day, they file into the milking parlor, where computer-calibrated vacuums drain several gallons of warm milk from their udders, a process that lasts about as long as a recitation of “The Farmer in the Dell.”

From New York Times