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English
Etymology
From vacci- (“cow”) + Latin mulgentia (“milking”).
Noun
vaccimulgence (uncountable)
- (rare, formal) The milking of cows.
1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Sara Coleridge Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, volume 2, published 1817, letter to Mr. Poole, 5, November, 1796, page 381:Will you try to look out for a fit servant for us,—simple of heart, physiognomically handsome, and scientific in vaccimulgence.
1993, Marc Shell, “Pasiphae, or On Vaccination and Vaccimulgence”, in Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society, volumes 4-5, page 34:Vaccimulgence. Who knows also, but that the human character may undergo strange mutations from quadrupedian sympathy, and that some modern Pasiphae may rival the fables of old.
2008, Michael Innes, Carson's Conspiracy, page 97:'Garford. There are perplexities there, beyond a doubt. And not wholly remote from what we must call the Solo problem. Mrs Carson, so prodigal of potatoes and the products of vaccimulgence, is dotty in her own way.'