Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily; -- called also cloakroom.

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  • noun US a cloakroom

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  • noun a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily

Etymologies

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coat +‎ room

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Examples

  • Eventually, the concert ended, and the men left the table for the coatroom.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

  • Eventually, the concert ended, and the men left the table for the coatroom.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

  • From where I sit on the hallway window ledge, I wistfully watch Nikolai Gromov putting on his jacket and boots in the coatroom.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • I smiled gratefully as Fiona rushed off to the coatroom—glad the subject had been changed.

    The Shape-Shifter’s Curse Amanda Marrone 2010

  • I smiled gratefully as Fiona rushed off to the coatroom—glad the subject had been changed.

    The Shape-Shifter’s Curse Amanda Marrone 2010

  • If I am lucky, I may see Nikolai Gromov, the boy who smiled at me in the coatroom two weeks ago.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • “Would it surprise you to know that a man named Arthur Willey, the man working in the coatroom that night, saw you two fighting?”

    The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010

  • If I am lucky, I may see Nikolai Gromov, the boy who smiled at me in the coatroom two weeks ago.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • What does Othman's behavior in the coatroom on page 226 indicate to Katya?

    Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris: Questions 2008

  • From where I sit on the hallway window ledge, I wistfully watch Nikolai Gromov putting on his jacket and boots in the coatroom.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

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