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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

... all these mysteries—put a name on each of them: "That is Mme. Moor. Hallo! Mme. d'Athis!" A confusion of coronets and initials, of caprices and old habits, sullied by the promiscuity of this moment, all engulfed in the horrid closet by the light of a lamp, with the noise of an intermittent gush of water, departing into oblivion by a shameful road. Suddenly Jenkins paused in his work of destruction. Two satin-gray letters trembled as he ...

— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet

... Even I would have trouble in holding them. Nothin' less than a judge on the bench is good enough for them. Dan does the dignity act with the janitors, and when he is with the boys he hangs up the ermine in the closet and becomes a jolly ...

— Plunkitt of Tammany Hall • George Washington Plunkitt

... day Is going to make out of boys and girls, Wise women and men alway. So what is the use of trying? A common lot shall be mine; Why muddle my brain with study? I never was meant to shine;" So away in the closet cupboard The books kept gathering dust, And the mind they were meant to nourish Was buried and lost in rust. So the hedges go gathering sparrows, And the larks still mount to the sky, And out from the crowded byways Few souls gain the mountains high. Have courage and keep on trying, Though a sparrow, ...

— Nestlings - A Collection of Poems • Ella Fraser Weller

... this wonderful tropical world, if one's eyes are only open to the wealth of animal and vegetable life. Indeed, a few hours so spent in the field, in simply watching animals and plants, teaches more of the distribution of life than a month of closet study; for under such circumstances all things are seen in their true relations. Unhappily, it is not easy to present the picture as a whole, for all our written descriptions are more or less dependent on nomenclature, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various

... where there were bathrooms and a tool closet, appeared Leonard, a rusty iron bar in his hand. He called threateningly from ...

— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad

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