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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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The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: January 1, 1984: Marseille, France -- An explosion ripped through the baggage checkroom of Marseille's main St.
Prepared for violent change The Emperor is crowned with a plastic lobster While venality totes its own baggage to the depot, A species of checkroom where what we carry creates Visceral anxiety, the pain of a phantom limb Bumped against a sequence of abandoned furnishings Which are also schools of thought, An ottoman called Ethics, end tables known as The Moral Sciences, and so on, and so forth.
So after various jobs, including his stint as checkroom boy at the city's Bismark Hotel, Sheldon headed for Los Angeles and wrote a screen treatment of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
 
 
 
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