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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cloakroom
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An entrance porch, cloakrooms and lavatories made up the rest of the accommodation.
▪ Both the counterfoil and the voting slip have identical numbers printed on them similar to a cloakroom or raffle tickets.
▪ Gingrich himself dragged some of the defectors into the House cloakroom for one last arm twist.
▪ Leaving the box, she went to the cloakroom where she was violently and unexpectedly sick.
▪ She presides over the cloakroom, which is in a hallway under the stairs of the adjacent building.
▪ Ten minutes later as she sat in the Ladies' cloakroom, smelling-salts to her nose, Sophie joined her.
▪ That betraying look in her eyes in the cloakroom just now must have told him he'd won again.
▪ Until now, when one sat here in the cloakroom, surrounded by old raincoats, shaking as though struck down by fever.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cloakroom

coatroom \coatroom\ n. a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily; -- called also cloakroom.

Syn: cloakroom.

Wiktionary
cloakroom

n. 1 A room, in a public building such as a theatre, where coats and other belongings may be left temporarily. 2 (context British English) A room where luggage may be left, for example in an airport. 3 A private lounge next to a legislative chamber. 4 (context British euphemistic English) lavatory, toilet

WordNet
cloakroom
  1. n. a private lounge off of a legislative chamber

  2. a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily [syn: coatroom]

Wikipedia
Cloakroom

A cloakroom, or sometimes coatroom, is a room for people to hang their cloaks or other outerwear when they enter a building. Cloakrooms are typically found inside large buildings, such as gymnasiums, schools, churches or meeting halls.

In the UK, a cloakroom may also refer to a lavatory. The word is often thought to be derived from the French cloaque (sewer); however, it comes from the French cloque meaning "traveling cloak".

Cloakroom (band)

Cloakroom is an American rock band from Northwest Indiana. They are currently signed to Run For Cover Records.

Usage examples of "cloakroom".

But Heini, understandably, wanted to concentrate on a solo career and since the house was not sufficiently soundproof to accommodate two practice sessions, the sight of Ziller carrying his Guarneri to the cloakroom of the Day Centre once more became familiar in Belsize Park.

I had decided to return the alicorn to the cloakroom to further the drama and intrigue.

Or was it that he did notice but thought the cloakroom was closed after eleven and was he too frustrated and too little-boy to do anything about it?

He gave me a ticket to get a package for him out of the cloakroom, with a supply of pens in it, and I never got it for him.

None of the press people will admit to having escorted Giles to the autographing room, but someone did, because the cloakroom girl saw him that morning.

I gather he was trying to ask if the cloakroom attendant still had the package or, if not, to whom she had given it.

His enemies are nowhere in sight, though they might be watching from a cloakroom window.

The experience of being enveloped by the warmth of the cloakroom is the only consolation about arriving at school.

If he stays in the cloakroom long enough, the dryness makes his throat sore, but that is a small price to pay.

Piccadilly Station, or I may have left it in the cloakroom at the Savoy.

Listen, Simon, you remember that cloakroom ticket I asked you to keep for me?

Only Valerie knows that she never gave me a cloakroom ticket, and she knows I know it.

You parked them in a cloakroom somewhere, and these birds knew it and wanted the ticket.

Her cloakroom story must have been true, then: she had simply given herself double cover, mailing the ticket to herself at the poste restante.

So I just popped them in the cloakroom meaning to collect them on my way back.