What's the difference between cloakroom and coatroom?

Cloakroom


Definition:

  • (n.) A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For a while, she worked as a cloakroom attendant over the lunchtime sessions at the Cavern.
  • (2) Johnson said that if he and Mittal had not bumped into each other in a Davos cloakroom "we would not be where we are today".
  • (3) "Last week my overcoat was taken from the members' cloakroom, where it was left over a weekend on my peg," writes mournful Tory Richard Benyon.
  • (4) "The box office used to be a girl sat on a stool at the top of the stairs with a petty cash tin and some cloakroom tickets.
  • (5) Much more reliable than the traditional diagnosis in the school cloakroom, this website is like the knowledgeable big sister you wish you'd had as a teen.
  • (6) Guards carry out brisk body searches; bags have to be checked into a makeshift cloakroom.
  • (7) Even so, the experience is exact to the extent that the stage is largely lit by candles, with the result that, with the addition of 340 people sitting in a small space, ushers at The Duchess of Malfi were warning customers to leave their coats in the cloakroom because it had turned out to be "so hot in there."
  • (8) We were not ready for the new curriculum, our marking was shoddy and our cloakrooms were shabby but the children loved learning and had loads of fun.
  • (9) By the time the storm clears, he looks like a cloakroom attendant.

Coatroom


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