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cloak room

cloak room is the alternative form of cloakroom.

Meaning of cloakroom

Noun

cloakroom (plural cloakrooms)

  1. A room intended for holding guests' cloaks and other heavy outerwear, as at a theater or night club.
  2. (India, Ireland, UK) A room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport.
    Synonyms:
    lost and found, baggage room, left-luggage office
  3. A private lounge next to a legislative chamber.
  4. (Ireland, UK, euphemistic) A lavatory, now particularly a small secondary lavatory or a men's room.
    • Although there was a cloakroom on the ground floor, the Old Rectory had only one bathroom, a defect which necessitated embarrassed, low-voiced enquiries before anyone upset their carefully worked-out rota by taking an unexpected bath.1989, P. D. James, Devices and Desires

Forms of cloak room

pluralcloak rooms

Questions about cloak room

What is cloak room the alternative form of?
Cloak room is the alternative form of cloakroom.

Words near cloak room in the dictionary

  1. cloak
  2. cloak bag
  3. cloak bags
  4. cloak fern
  5. cloak ferns
  6. cloak room
  7. cloak rooms
  8. cloak-and-dagger
  9. cloak-and-daggery
  10. cloak-and-sworder
  11. cloak-and-sworders

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