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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

... extraordinary constipation given in the Dictionary of Medical Sciences. Would that they had known the famous Canadian, De Beaumont, the polyphagi, Tarare and Bijou, the dropsical woman from the department of Eure, the Piedmontese who went every twenty days to the water-closet, Simon de Mirepoix, who was ossified at the time of his death, and that ancient mayor of Angouleme whose nose ...

— Bouvard and Pecuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life • Gustave Flaubert

... reached from the south aisle by a stair. It is barrel-vaulted and is lighted by an eastern window. There are ambries in the walls and an eastern altar with a piscina. There are also a fireplace and a small closet on the north side. On the south a door leads to what has been an open court, where there are indications of other buildings having existed or being intended. In all probability there was a residence here, and the chapel may have served both as sacristy and private ...

— Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys • Dugald Butler and Herbert Story

... the single room inquiringly. He placed his finger upon the crevices in the weather-boarding; he opened the little closet below the stairs, and a weasel dashed out and shot through the door; he ascended the steep, short stairs, and with a torch examined the black shingles, but nothing was there except a litter of young owls, whose parents had gone poaching. Then, returning, he searched on every open beam and ...

— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend

... could not perform. Of all these things they are perfect sovereign judges, without appeal; but as to the detail of particular measures, or to any general schemes of policy, they have neither enough of speculation in the closet, nor of experience in business, to decide upon it. They can well see whether we are tools of a court, or their honest servants. Of that they can well judge; and I wish, that they always exercised their judgment; but of the particular merits of a measure I have other standards.**** ...

— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke

... match. The blaze lit up the room. There was no one in the room! Raoul, first turning the key in the door, lit the gas-jets. He went into the dressing-closet, opened the cupboards, hunted about, felt the walls with ...

— The Phantom of the Opera • Gaston Leroux

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