Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place where hats, coats, packages, or other items can be stored temporarily.
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- noun US A place where
outdoor clothing orluggage may betemporarily stored
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a room where baggage or parcels are checked
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Examples
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At the front entrance of the sale there was even a checkroom not for coats but for plants already picked but not yet paid for, so that people could keep shopping without fear they'd be filched.
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I led Courtney down the stairs and along the corridor, passing the hotel laundry, the vault, and the baggage checkroom.
Pendragon: Book Eight: The Pilgrims of Rayne D. J. MacHale 2007
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Enthusiasm undimmed, he grabbed a sword from the checkroom and staggered off into the night.
Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 2000
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When my daughter and some of her friends had their purses stolen from the checkroom of a teenage nightclub and the owners refused to admit it was their responsibility, I was the one who supplied a short, boyish-looking 21-year-old with a fake i.d. listing him as 16 so that the place could lose its liquor license.
The Mozart Code Adler, Dick 1999
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Plywood cutouts of more clowns greeted me: one pointed the way to the checkroom, another to a door marked RESTROOMS; a third had a mechanical arm that semaphored toward the club proper.
The Shape of Dread Muller, Marcia 1989
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Enthusiasm undimmed, he grabbed a sword from the checkroom and staggered off into the night.
Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 1983
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The group tossed their weapons a-clatter toward the checkroom, for the landlord's family to pick up.
Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 1983
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Lapointe eventually found somewhere to park the car, and he followed Maigret to the luggage checkroom.
Maigret and the Headless Corpse Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1955
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Six murderers out of ten, if they have anything incriminating to get rid of, deposit it in the luggage checkroom of a railway station.
Maigret and the Headless Corpse Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1955
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It was at the checkroom of Gare du Nord that François Lagrange had deposited the trunk containing the body of the Deputy.
Maigret's Revolver Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1952
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