cloakroom

• cloak room

From cloak +‎ room

cloakroom (plural cloakrooms)

1. A room intended for holding guests' cloaks and other heavy outerwear, as at a theater.
2. (Britain) A room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport.
3. A private lounge next to a legislative chamber.
4. (Britain, euphemistic) A lavatory, now particularly a small secondary lavatory or a men's room.

• (all senses): cloaks
• (room for storing heavy outer garments): coatroom, coat check, checkroom (US)
• (room for lost luggage): lost and found; baggage room (US); left-luggage office (UK)
• (lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom
• (small secondary lavatory): half bath, half bathroom (North America); toilet (NZ)

• (coatroom for women): ladies' cloakroom (historical)
• (lavatory for women): powder room; ladies' cloakroom (dated)

• cloakroom attendant
• cloakroom ticket
• cloaks
• ladies' cloakroom

• "ˈcloak-room, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1891), Oxford: Oxford University Press.