left-luggage office

[left-luhg-ij]

noun

British.

1. a checkroom for baggage.

left-luggage office

noun

1. US and Canadian name: checkroom. a place at a railway station, airport, etc, where luggage may be left for a small charge with an attendant for safekeeping

Word History and Origins

Origin of left-luggage office¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

They were discovered in the left-luggage office at the city’s central station and contained crucial evidence linking the pair to the little girl.

From The Guardian

Both thieves concealed the famous paintings for several years without being caught and both decided to return them: the Duke was deposited in the left-luggage office of New Street station in Birmingham.

From The Guardian

He fortified himself with a glass of brandy and a sandwich, deposited the portmanteaus in the left-luggage office; and started to walk to Gourock.

From Project Gutenberg

“There’s a silly fathead got in what thinks this is a left-luggage office, so far as I can make out—a foreigner.”

From Project Gutenberg

After all, they arrived at the station with five minutes to spare, just long enough to book their excursion tickets and to leave their bicycles in the left-luggage office.

From Project Gutenberg