cloakroom
noun
a room in which outer garments, hats, umbrellas, etc., may be left temporarily, as in a club, restaurant, etc.; checkroom.
cloakrooms
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pluralof cloakroom.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The Hill also picked out a defined audience—political addicts who want to know what’s happening in the Senate cloakrooms at all times—and catered to its needs.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2024
The Capitol’s cloakrooms, hideaways, offices, press galleries and trains are cramped, even if some people are working from home.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2020
Some rose from their chairs and crossed the chamber to whisper to one another, while others exited the chamber entirely for 15- to 20-minute stretches and could be seen in the cloakrooms on their phones.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2020
A dozen senators, from both parties, made exoduses to their respective cloakrooms.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2020
Day-scholars who left small sums of money in their jacket pockets would find, on returning to the cloakrooms, that these had been pilfered.
From The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
