(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.
Theatre
Definition:
(n.) An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.
(n.) Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.
(n.) That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater.
(n.) A sphere or scheme of operation.
(n.) A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(2) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(3) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
(4) It should also be realised that, in a very few hospitals, swabs which do not have an opaque marker may occasionally be used in theatre.
(5) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
(6) McQueen later worked for Gieves & Hawkes and the theatre costumiers Angels , before being employed, aged 20, by Koji Tatsuno , a Japanese designer with links to London.
(7) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(8) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
(9) An obsessional artist who was an enemy of all institutions, cinematic as well as social, and whose principal theme was intolerance, he invariably gets delivered to us today by institutions - most recently the National Film Theatre, which starts a Dreyer retrospective this month - that can't always be counted on to represent him in all his complexity.
(10) It was curious in that it was the only thing I was doing that was not directly related to theatre or film.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Daniel Radcliffe, centre, with Sarah Greene and Pat Shortt in The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Cort Theatre in New York.
(12) You shouldn't get involved in theatre or film if you don't think they can do your book."
(13) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian But is theatre even happening in the right places to begin with?
(14) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
(15) In his articles, he took on the theatre establishment, blaming it for siding with the actors and not the playwright.
(16) What we do know is that we cannot and will not see this decision as a vote of no confidence, and that we will find a way to continue through our own passion and dedication to making theatre that represents the dispossessed, tells stories of the injustices of our world and changes lives.
(17) In our play 2071 , which recently completed its inaugural run at the Royal Court theatre in London, directed by Katie Mitchell, we explore the science, its implications and the options before us.
(18) This paper describes a search for Gram-negative bacteria in an operating theatre and the steps taken to reduce the level of environmental contamination.A high rate of infection in clean wounds prompted a bacteriological survey.
(19) What's the best thing about making theatre in Britain?
(20) People want to talk to me – on city streets, in theatre queues, on aeroplanes over the Atlantic, even on country walks.