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Definition of Cloakroom

1. Noun. A private lounge off of a legislative chamber.

2. Noun. A room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily.

Definition of Cloakroom

1. n. A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

Definition of Cloakroom

1. Noun. A room, in a public building such as a theatre, where coats and other belongings may be left temporarily. ¹

2. Noun. (British) A room where luggage may be left, for example in an airport. ¹

3. Noun. A private lounge next to a legislative chamber. ¹

4. Noun. (British euphemistic) lavatory, toilet ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cloakroom

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloakroom

cloacas cloacin cloacitis cloak cloak-and-dagger cloaked cloakedly cloaking cloaking device cloaking devices

cloakings cloakless cloaklike cloakmaker cloakmakers cloakroom (current term) cloakrooms cloaks cloam cloams

cloath cloaths clobazam clobber clobbered clobbering clobbers clobenpropit clobenzepam clobenzorex

Literary usage of Cloakroom

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. School Efficiency: A Manual of Modern School Management by Henry Eastman Bennett (1917)
"Converting the corridor into a cloakroom spoils the one without ... In such case it is well to have the foul-air exit in the cloakroom and placed high so ..."

2. Report of the Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies: With the Reports by Charles William Eliot (1894)
"The vitiated air from the schoolroom reaches this ventilating flue as follows: The partition between the schoolroom and the cloakroom is raised 2 inches or ..."

3. The Schoolhouse by Edward Curtis Earl (1919)
"For grade schools one cloakroom is usually provided for each classroom, the two rooms being connected by one or two doors. For high schools, the two sexes ..."

4. Report by Birmingham (England) Education Committee, City of Birmingham Education Committee (1907)
"A separate cloakroom will be provided for the babies, and rooms for Head Mistress and Assistant Teachers, together with lavatory and stockroom, ..."

5. Negligence in Law by Thomas Beven (1908)
"The hiring being determined, he refused to pay the cloakroom charges, ... One of the most reasonable of such facilities is the cloakroom " ; and the lien a ..."

6. The Masterpieces of Modern Drama ...: Abridged in Narrative with Dialogue of by Brander Matthews (1915)
"In the cloakroom at the Victoria station. It was given to him in mistake for his own. Lady B. The cloakroom at the Victoria station? Jack. Yes. ..."

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