Cloakroom

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A cloakroom, or sometimes coatroom, is a room for people to hang their coats. Typically found inside a large building, such as a gymnasium or meeting hall, it is long and narrow with plenty of pegs on which to hang coats, umbrellas, and hats.

Attended cloakrooms are staffed rooms where coats and bags can be stored securely. Typically, a ticket is given to the customer, with a corresponding ticket attached to the garment or item. They are often found in Nightclubs.

The United States Senate cloakroom is a favorite hiding place for senators [1].

In the United Kingdom, an estate agent (the British equivalent of a real estate broker) will often use the word cloakroom to refer to the small, ground-floor lavatory of a house or to a secondary lavatory of an apartment. A cloakroom within anything other than a private residence can safely be assumed to be a place in which coats and other belongings are kept and the term is still commonly used in hotels, stations, clubs, museums and most other UK public venues in its traditional sense.