A room for the temporary storage of coats, bags, etc., esp. in a large public building, as a theatre, school, railway station, etc., typically near the entrance
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Interviewer: Can you describe what the school house like? Speaker: It was one room, brick school house. Interviewer: Ah, can you describe what it looked like inside? Speaker 38: It just had one room and four rows of seats, and a big stove at the back which we could light. And um, um blackboards across the front and down the sides. A cloakroom at the entrance and a library in the one corner. Interviewer: How many pupils would you have in attendance? Say in the winter? Speaker: There wouldn't be any more than in any other city, I think there would be about maybe twenty-five, twenty-six pupils. |
A room for the temporary storage of coats, bags, etc., esp. in a large public building, as a theatre, school, railway station, etc., typically near the entrance |
| Example | Meaning |
Put me in front- and my wife tells the story that she went out in the cloakroom and cried and cried and cried 'cause she got moved. |
A room for the temporary storage of coats, bags, etc., esp. in a large public building, as a theatre, school, railway station, etc., typically near the entrance |
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Those boys were- were after me. I ran into the bathroom, didn't get the door locked in time and they both g-- came in. Interviewer: Oh dear, what did you do? Speaker: I- I just screamed and yelled and clawed and- and finally the other kids- the younger kids were in the- in the cloakroom where the stove was and they- they yell-- they said "Here comes the teacher." (laughs) So they had to run out (laughs). |
A room for the temporary storage of coats, bags, etc., esp. in a large public building, as a theatre, school, railway station, etc., typically near the entrance |
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Interviewer: Did your school have electricity then? Speaker: Oh yeah, you had the- you had hydro but you had no running water, you-see and your toilet was just a- a big tank in the hole in the floor and the girls had one and the boys had the other. Then you co-- cloakroom for all your coats.But you d-- little- your- brought every morning you brought the pail and 'course the water would be getting cold out of the well. |
A room for the temporary storage of coats, bags, etc., esp. in a large public building, as a theatre, school, railway station, etc., typically near the entrance |
| Example | Meaning |
Speaker: And the little cloakrooms where you came in. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And in the wintertime they moved the coat hangers inside because- Interviewer: Oh, they used to be outside? Speaker: Oh, well they were in the cloakroom when you came in. |
A room for the temporary storage of coats, bags, etc., esp. in a large public building, as a theatre, school, railway station, etc., typically near the entrance |
