Definition of Coatroom

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

Exact synonyms: Cloakroom
Generic synonyms: Room

Definition of Coatroom

1. Noun. (American English) a cloakroom ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coatroom

1. a room for storing coats [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coatroom

coathooks
coati
coati-mondi
coati-mundi
coatimundi
coatimundis
coating
coatings
coatis
coatless
coatlike
coatomer
coatomers
coatrack
coatracks
coatroom (current term)
coatrooms
coats
coats of arms
coatstand
coatstands
coattail
coattails
coattails effect
coattend
coattended
coattending
coattends
coattest
coattested

Literary usage of Coatroom

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

1. The Rural School Plant for Rural Teachers and School Boards, Normal Schools by Samuel Andrew Challman (1917)
"The simplest type of a rural school must provide a schoolroom, a coatroom, and a vestibule. A building no larger than 24 feet by 36 feet can be arranged to ..."

2. Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association by National Fire Protection Association (1896)
"The oxygen cylinder was n the rear of the coatroom with the rectly behind the coatroom lining d in the glass insulation. As the enriched flames spread to ..."

3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"(Compare Cloakroom ; coatroom.) TOLEDO. JUAN BAUTISTA. (See Juan Bautista di Toledo.) TOLLBOOTH. A stall or office where tolls in any sense are to be paid ..."

4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"... water-closet, etc., are often contained in the cloakroom, or in a separate enclosure adjoining, and the one term covers them all. (Compare coatroom. ..."

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