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Cloakroom

noun

A private lounge off of a legislative chamber.

A room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily. Synonym: coatroom.

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"Cloakroom" Quotes from Famous Books

... second object. It was a pocket-book, but it proved rather disappointing. It contained two five pound Bank of England notes, nine one pound and three ten shilling Treasury notes, the return half of a third-class railway ticket from Hull to King's Cross, a Great Northern cloakroom ticket, a few visiting cards inscribed "Mr. Francis Coburn," and lastly, the photograph by Cramer of Regent Sweet of a ...

— The Pit Prop Syndicate • Freeman Wills Crofts

... very small share indeed," Mr. Bundercombe continued pleadingly; "but such as it is it's up to you to take it on at this moment. There the little insect goes into the cloakroom. He has gone for his hat and coat. All you've got to do is just to follow him and ask him to come back for one moment. That little room on the left, across the hall, is empty. Bring him into that. Leave ...

— An Amiable Charlatan • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... be all right!" he said; "I shall take a change of clothes and leave my uniform and rifle in the cloakroom at the frontier station, and get them out again ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 • Various

... had begun to search. She asked everybody she knew in the ballroom if the girls had gone out, and inquired in the cloakroom; but the two had been seen by nobody. It was as if they had melted into air; and Brigit began to suspect that they must have covered up their brilliant dresses with dominoes smuggled into the Casino. Willis Bailey was at the ball, but ...

— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson