checkroom

American  

[chek-room, -room] / ˈtʃɛkˌrum, -ˌrʊm /

noun

1. a room where hats, coats, parcels, etc., may be checked.

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checkroom British  

/ -ˌrʊm, ˈtʃɛkˌruːm /

noun

1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): left-luggage office.  a place at a railway station, airport, etc, where luggage may be left for a small charge with an attendant for safekeeping

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Etymology

Origin of checkroom

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; check ¹ + room

Example Sentences

On the East Side zebra-striped El Morocco is open this summer for the first time in its ten-year history, and officers' caps are stacked six deep in the checkroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

The way is usually beset by obstacles and hazards: doormen dressed like admirals, headwaiters with manners like Gestapo agents, blonde Mata Haris of the checkroom, silk ropes, and other frustrated pilgrims awaiting admission.

From Time Magazine Archive

His wife is in charge of the checkroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last month police turned up a suitcase containing a scrambled skein of recording tapes in the checkroom of a Manchester railway station, played the tapes at a BBC studio.

From Time Magazine Archive

All of a sudden I looked at the clock in the checkroom and it was twenty-five of one.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger