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cloakroom
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cloakroom
1. A room for the deposit or checking of outer clothing.
2. A small lounge outside a legislative chamber where coats may be hung.
3. A room for checking packages or baggage, as in a theater, railway station, or airport.
4. (Brit.) A washroom and toilet.


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He was ignored on the Senate floor as colleagues brushed past without so much as a nod, but was chatting in the cloistered Senate cloakroom with other Republicans as the votes dragged into the evening.
The CMA also contributes to the preservation of that venerable Capitol Hill tradition--keeping the Senate Cloakrooms in sweets.
In fact, Reedy argues, senators do their crucial work neither on the floor nor in committee but in casual conversations conducted while walking through the Capitol corridors, attending parties, enjoying a cup of coffee, or working the Senate cloakrooms.
 
 
 
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