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dair⋅y

[dair-ee] noun, plural dair⋅ies, adjective
–noun
1. an establishment, as a room, building, or buildings, where milk and cream are kept and butter and cheese are made.
2. a shop or company that sells milk, butter, etc.
3. the business of a dairy farm, concerned with the production and treatment of milk and cream and the manufacture of butter and cheese.
4. dairy farm.
5. (in Jewish dietary law) dairy products.
–adjective
6. of or pertaining to a dairy or a dairy farm.
7. of, for, or pertaining to milk, cream, butter, cheese, etc.: dairy products; the dairy case at a supermarket.
8. (in Jewish dietary law) of or pertaining to those foods, including all milk products, eggs, fish, vegetables, etc., that may be eaten at a meal in which milk is served, in contrast to meat and meat products, which may not.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME daierie, equiv. to daie, deie dairymaid (OE dǣge bread maker; c. ON deigja; see lady ) + -erie -ery
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dair·y   (dâr'ē)   
n.   pl. dair·ies
  1. A commercial establishment for processing or selling milk and milk products.

  2. A place where milk and cream are stored and processed.

  3. A dairy farm.

  4. The dairy business; dairying.

adj.  
  1. Of, for, or relating to milk or milk products: the dairy section at the grocery store.

  2. Of or relating to dairying.

  3. Judaism Of, relating to, or intended for the consumption or preparation of milk or milk products exclusively, as dictated by dietary law.


[Middle English daierie : Middle English daie, dairymaid (from Old English dǣge, bread kneader; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots) + Anglo-Norman -erie, place (from Old French; see -ery).]
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dairy 
1290, from Anglo-Fr. -erie suffix affixed to M.E. daie (in daie maid "dairymaid"), from O.E. dæge "kneader of bread, housekeeper, female servant" (see dey (1)). The native word was dey-house.
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