S vs Cloakroom - What's the difference?
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The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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A room, in a public building such as a theatre, where coats and other belongings may be left temporarily.
(British) A room where luggage may be left, for example in an airport.
A private lounge next to a legislative chamber.
(British, euphemistic) lavatory, toilet
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun cloakroom is
a room, in a public building such as a theatre, where coats and other belongings may be left temporarily.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}cloakroom
English
(wikipedia cloakroom)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
In the British sense “lavatory”, primarily used by estate agents when describing small, secondary lavatories (North America: half bath), and in occasional use as a posh term to denote the gents’ lavatory, such as at ,BRITISH EUPHEMISMS, Knowledge Problem, June 26th, 2002 where it is contrasted with “ladies’ powder” (see powder room).