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milk house 
a farm outbuilding where milk is kept, usually under some degree of coldness.
- 1796 To be disposed of, six years lease of . . . a good House pleasantly situated, comprising eight Rooms, Garrets, and Kitchen, with a Milk House Barns and Stables, adjoining.
- 1826 (1955) Milk will now hardly keep sweet some days from morning to night, through having a bad "milk house" (dairy) situated above ground and without shade.
- 1959 And then, too, they had no proper place to ripen the cream. The earthen rooms called milk houses came later.
- 1796 To be disposed of, six years lease of . . . a good House pleasantly situated, comprising eight Rooms, Garrets, and Kitchen, with a Milk House Barns and Stables, adjoining.