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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



... Elise Farrington, as she met her in the cloakroom, "what do you think? We're going to get up a play for commencement. An original play, and act it ourselves, and we want you to write it, and act in it, and stage-manage it, and ...
— Patty's Summer Days • Carolyn Wells

... shoulder blade. To her mid-Victorian mind Sinclair Spencer was not conducting himself as a gentleman should, and her half-considered resolve to drop him from her visiting list became adamantine as she observed his appearance. Slipping her hand inside Kathleen's arm she led her to the cloakroom. ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln

... They went into the cloakroom to get their wraps, and Miss Davis had to turn on the light for them because it was so dark. The window was high in the wall, and the wind had blown so much snow against it that the room was "like five o'clock at night," Carleton ...
— Sunny Boy and His Playmates • Ramy Allison White

... from Mrs. Henrietta Plunkett at the door of the ladies' cloakroom. Mrs. Plunkett was Newbern's ablest exponent of the cause of woman, and she had been disquieted this night at observing signs of an unaccustomed frivolity in one of her ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson

... enough to understand. He was in the second eleven, and after Dan the best fighter in the lower school. If I could understand Norval's change of attitude all would be plain to me; so when next time, bounding upon me in the cloakroom and slipping his arm into mine, he clamoured for my company to Camden Town, I put ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome

... unexampled efforts; he fairly hurled his massive body down the stairs, and a few moments later returned, panting but happy, with news that the lady in Number Six had left a cloak and leather bag in the cloakroom. These articles ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett



Words linked to "Cloakroom" :   waiting room, lounge, waiting area, room



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