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Cloakroom   /klˈoʊkrˌum/   Listen
Cloakroom

noun
1.
A private lounge off of a legislative chamber.
2.
A room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily.  Synonym: coatroom.






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"Cloakroom" Quotes from Famous Books



... toward the first of October at the noon hour that Lydia met Kent and Charlie Jackson. She had finished her lunch, which she ate in the cloakroom, and bareheaded and coatless was walking up and down the sidewalk ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow

... to a sudden opening between paper walls. In a little room behind a table stood a middle-aged Japanese couple as stiff as waxworks. For an instant Geoffrey thought they must be the cloakroom attendants. Then, to his surprise, ...
— Kimono • John Paris

... from the ladies' cloakroom, attended by her pretty bevy, Sir Peter, followed by his guests, awaited her in the great corridor, where she took his arm, looking up into his handsome face with that indefinable smile I knew so well—a smile of delicate ...
— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers

... mother, who confirmed all that the teacher had experienced: her prescription was smacking. After a good deal of thought and many ineffectual talks and experiments with the boy, the teacher came to the conclusion that the mother was right: she took him to the cloakroom after the next outbreak and smacked his hands: he was surprised and a little hurt, but very soon forgot and continued his practices: on the next occasion the teacher repeated the punishment and it was ...
— The Child Under Eight • E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith

... But with all their preparations they got to the hall late. The entrance was filled with a crowd of people, and, as they stopped at the cloakroom, to leave their wraps, they found themselves entangled with a number of people in costume coming out from a dressing-room below. Mr. Peterkin was much encouraged. They were thus joining the performers. The ...
— The Peterkin Papers • Lucretia P Hale


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