hatcheck

A room, in a theatre or other such venue, in which hats and other garments of thre patrons may be stored while visiting.

Noun US

  1. A room, in a theatre or other such venue, in which hats and other garments of thre patrons may be stored while visiting.
    • Admission 25 cents—Hatcheck 15 cents. - 1914–1915, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman (editors), Mother Earth Bulletin (Greenwood Reprint Corp.), series 1, volume 9, page 369
    • The following appeal in French and in English is handed out with the hatchecks in Henri’s Restaurant, Lynbrook, Long Island, of which Henri Charpentier is the amiable owner. Evidently this is not a restaurant to be...

Origin

First attested in 1914–1915; formed as hat + check.

Forms

hatchecks

Derived

hatcheck girl

Noun alt of, rare

  1. Rare spelling of háček.
    • For certain consonants normally represented with other diacritics (superposed “hatcheck,” subposed dot, bar) capitalization is used instead. - 1981, Dell H. Hymes, “In vain I tried to tell you”: Essays in Native...
    • In other transcription systems…[ʃ], [ʒ], [tʃ], and [dʒ] are written with hatchecks: [š], [ž], [č], [ǰ]. - 2006, Ralph W. Fasold, Jeff Connor-Linton, editors, An Introduction to Language and Linguistics, pages 23–24:

Origin

First attested in 1981; see háček.

Forms

hatchecks