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Definition of Checkrooms
1. checkroom [n] - See also: checkroom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Checkrooms
Literary usage of Checkrooms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Women and the Trades,Pittsburgh,1907-1908 by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler (1909)
"... as in suit-case factories, and in cases where men and women do the same work,
as in laundry checkrooms, the difference in wage rating is the same. ..."
2. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Marshall Everett (1904)
"... stood before the half dozen city police on guard, asking to be admitted that
these valuables might be removed to the checkrooms of the theater. ..."
3. Cotton Mill, Commercial Features by Daniel Augustus Tompkins (1899)
"30-inch 6040 checkrooms 9040 Throstle spindle and flyer 140 Castings for water-wheels
and heavy Shafts and couplings, pulleys, hangers, gearings, furnished, ..."
4. Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handbook of the World's Columbian Exposition by Stuart Charles Wade, Rand McNally and Company (1893)
"... 23 x 25 feet, of Duluth and its harbor, and in the rear the superintendent's
room, checkrooms, post office, and information bureau. ..."
5. Women and the Trades, Pittsburgh, 1907-1908 by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler (1909)
"Some laun- drymen planned to introduce one or two women at a time into the
checkrooms and by degrees to dismiss the men. This move was unsuccessful. ..."
6. A Modern System of Domestic Cookery: Arranged on the Most Economical Plan by M. Radcliffe (1823)
"... will have the same effect Quantities of the largest sized ants, scattered
about checkrooms and granaries, would presently devour all the ..."
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