cloakroom
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Entry is through a metal detector, and bags must be put in the cloakroom or in lockers, and there are more security guards.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The leader should function as a player-manager who can be trusted to deliver on the Senate floor and in the cloakroom.
From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2025
Also worth noting: Rose added a toilet and a small cloakroom basin by Thomas Crapper & Co. to add a bit of whimsy to the washroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
When she walked into the cloakroom that day, she overheard “members comparing stories of how I got their votes. Some with humor”—as was the case with Donnelly’s—and “some not.”
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2024
My classmates returned from the cafeteria, then scurried off to the cloakroom and the bathrooms and returned.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
Tape it above the door in the House cloakrooms.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2024
The Hill also picked out a defined audience—political addicts who want to know what’s happening in the Senate cloakrooms at all times—and catered to its needs.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2024
New cubbies — just like in school — were installed outside the chamber and in the cloakrooms to store Apple cellphones — or a real apple, if you’re Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2020
To accommodate them, Capitol carpenters have installed a cabinet of cubbyholes, complete with charging cables, in the cloakrooms just outside the Senate floor.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2020
The halls were occupied by attentive officers, who received the visitors and ushered them into cloakrooms.
From Ishmael Or, In the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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