hatcheck

[ hat-chek ]

adjective

1. of, noting, or engaged in the checking of hats, coats, umbrellas, etc., into temporary safekeeping:

   a hatcheck girl.

2. used in checking of hats, coats, etc.:

   a hatcheck room.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hatcheck¹

1915–20; hat + check ¹ (in the sense of “a ticket or token of ownership of an article left in the temporary custody of another”)

Example Sentences

Rorem also seemed intent to view Mozart less as a divine vessel and more as a man: “Mozart’s pain is no less acute than the hatcheck girl’s,” he once quipped.

From Washington Post

Traipsing about Europe in a state of weepy lovesickness over an Italian man, he observed, “The choice of lover is one’s own business, but if you’re Beethoven in love with a hatcheck girl, or a hatcheck girl in love with Beethoven, or Tristan, or Juliet, or Aschenbach, or the soldier on furlough, the suffering is equally intense and its expression just as banal.”

From New York Times

The Belgian-born daughter of Polish Jews, Régine grew up in France, hiding in a convent during the Nazi occupation, before launching her nightclub career as a hatcheck girl at the Whisky à Gogo in Paris.

From Washington Post

A dying millionaire perks up after meeting a hatcheck girl posing as his son’s fiancee.

From Los Angeles Times

An eccentric old New York millionaire anonymously repays a hatcheck girl for saving his life.

From Los Angeles Times