cloak room

A form of cloakroom — A room intended for holding guests' cloaks and other heavy outerwear, as at a theater or night club.

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Meanings

nouncloak room (plural cloak rooms)

plural cloak rooms

  1. alternativeAlternative form of cloakroom: a room for storing outerwear; a lavatory.

    About 200 guests were invited and entertained to lunch in the so-called booking hall at Waterloo; the contractors, Spiers & Pond Limited, were much praised for organising the repast, with attendant cloak room facilities, so well in such unfavourable surroundings.

    1958 August 28, T. S. Lascelles, “Diamond Jubilee of the Waterloo & City Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 523
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APA

cloak room. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cloak%20room

MLA

“cloak room.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cloak%20room. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cloak room,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cloak%20room.

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