A room near the entrance of any place of assembly, in which cloaks, coats, hats, etc., may be left; also, in recent use, an office at railway-stations, etc., where luggage of any description is temporarily taken charge of.
a. 1852. Moore, Country Dance & Quad., ix. 34. The squires and their squiresses all … She in the cloak-room saw assembling.
1884. G. W. R. Time-tables, July, 108. There are Cloak Rooms at all the Principal Stations.
