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, meeting hall, or a classroom, it is long and narrow with plenty of pegs on which to hang coats, umbrellas, and hats.

Attended cloakrooms, or coat checks, 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. A nominal fee is generally charged, or if not, a tip is usually paid by the customer when they reclaim their item.

Alternative Usages

US Senate

The United States Senate cloakrooms are how the parties interact with the Senators while they are on the floor. The cloakrooms control all the action on the Senate floor, including speaking time, order and organization.

United Kingdom

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 usually be safely be assumed to be a place in which coats and other belongings are kept, but exceptions occur û at Fortnum & Mason, the gentsÆ lavatory is referred to as the ôcloakroomö. The term is still commonly used in hotels, stations, clubs, museums and most other UK public venues in its traditional sense.

Cloakrooms and spanking

Cloakrooms have been used as a location to give a semi-private disciplinary spanking, when the spankee has earned one in the associated public location. This is considered only semi-private due to two facts: a) people could walk in at any time, b) many cloakrooms will block the sight of the spanking, but not the sounds, from the main room.

Many schools, particularly primary schools, require students to line up quietly outside a classroom and wait for the teacher's permission to enter. When there is an individual cloakroom associated with the classroom, it will be here where they line up. As such, the cloakroom could be the site of an on-the-spot spanking for breaking various rules.

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