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noun

Closet n.

A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy. "A chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine." "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet."

A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc.

Closet sin, sin commited in privacy.

verb

Closet v. t. (past & past part. closeted; pres. part. closeting)

To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal. (R.) "Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge."

To make into a closet for a secret interview. "He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members." "He had been closeted with De Quadra."

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Etymology of 'Closet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Closet" Quotes from Famous Books

... the day before Christmas that the change was effected. In the closet where had been the bottles, the decanters, glasses, and pickle-jars of the late occupant, Mr. Bixby had arranged shelves, and filled them with his books. Over the mantel, from which Mr. Bangs had taken away a colored print of a bull-dog in an overcoat, Mr. Bixby ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 • Various

... you live in the cellar?" she asked in astonishment as her aunt led the way down the basement stairs. "I've never lived in a cellar before. In Mifflin our cellar had only room for jellies and pickles and a closet for vegetables, turnips ...

— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett

... girls beheld her, while their eyes were swimming with tears. "I have long, long kept a bridal veil in my closet," she went on, "and knew not it was to be mine!" Opening a wardrobe, she took out a long black veil. It had belonged to her grandaunt, the nun, Madelaine de Repentigny, and was kept as an ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... temperatures lies in the adoption of a closed system of piping of small bore, a certain portion of which is wound into a coil and placed in a furnace situated in any convenient position outside the drying chamber or hot closet. The circulation is thus hermetically sealed and so proportioned that while a much higher temperature can be attained than is possible with a system of pipes open to the atmosphere, yet a certain and perfectly safe maximum cannot by any ...

— Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition - For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and - Galvanizing • William N. Brown

... was sartorial. It is true that a shiny alpaca office coat covered the excellent shoulders of the boy, but below that alpaca and under Scattergood's line of vision were trousers—and carefully stretched over a hanger on a closet hook was a coat! There was also a waistcoat, recognized only by the name of vest in Coldriver, and that very morning Scattergood had seen the three, to say nothing of a certain shirt and a necktie of sorts, ...

— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland

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