coatroom

[ koht-room, -room ]

noun

1. cloakroom ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of coatroom¹

First recorded in 1865–70; coat + room

Example Sentences

You put me next to a fuzzy blanket or a fuzzy coat, and I will just be right back in my kindergarten coatroom.

From Salon

Some of the posts said police arrived at the scene and ran straight to the coatroom.

From Fox News

Clarisse, then 24, was in the coatroom with a friend, getting ready to run out to a nearby convenience store for beers in the time-honored subterfuge of the young and broke.

From Seattle Times

Later, when they returned to the building where the reception was being held, Mr. McCarrick assaulted him — while praying — inside a coatroom, he said.

From New York Times

There, it would be she who would spend the evening trying heroically to pretend that it didn't matter that she'd been placed in a seat located only just outside the coatroom.

From Salon