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- noun Plural form of
coatroom .
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Examples
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Syms nursed her growing musical passion by sneaking out to stand in saloon coatrooms when she was underage to listen to jazz greats such as Mildred Bailey, Billie Holiday, Art Tatum, and Lester Young.
Sylvia Blagman Syms. 2009
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Heights down to the Bunch, so the young gallants sneaked from the proprieties of the Bunch off to “times” with bouncing young women whom they picked up in department stores and at hotel coatrooms.
Babbit 2004
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In the coatrooms, the hotel lobbies, the boarding houses of Capitol Hill, at the tea-parties of the Congressional matrons, and from occasional entries into the drawing rooms of cosmopolitan Washington, new vistas are opened, and wider horizons.
Public Opinion Walter Lippmann 1931
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As Babbitt sneaked from Floral Heights down to the Bunch, so the young gallants sneaked from the proprieties of the Bunch off to ` ` times '' with bouncing young women whom they picked up in department stores and at hotel coatrooms.
Babbitt 1922
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As Babbitt sneaked from Floral Heights down to the Bunch, so the young gallants sneaked from the proprieties of the Bunch off to times with bouncing young women whom they picked up in department stores and at hotel coatrooms.
Chapter 29 1922
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Bunch off to "times" with bouncing young women whom they picked up in department stores and at hotel coatrooms.
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918
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At the second bell the lines filed out in orderly fashion to the coatrooms, at the sides of the schoolroom.
The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving 1895
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They have coatrooms and other stuff in every room.
SFGate: Top News Stories eallday@sfchronicle.com (Henry K. Lee 2011
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The mosque includes separate entrances for men and women with oversize coatrooms for outerwear and shoes, which must be removed when people enter the mosque.
BangorDailyNews.com - News By Judy Harrison BDN Staff 2010
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Otherwise, I have read reports of leaded-glass skylights, mahogany-paneled coatrooms, an English oak-paneled men's bar and dining room, a red and gold grill room, wine rooms and billiard rooms.
CounterPunch 2008
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