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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

... like a homicide as I raised the double-barreled gun and pulled both triggers. I felt worse after I had crawled out of the cistern, where the perfidious gun had kicked me, and learned that I had missed the whole drove and sent a hatful of slugs and nails into a neighbor's china closet. I broke the gun over Old Brindle's vertebrae and followed up the attack with the garden-fork. After I had chased the entire drove back and forth over the garden a dozen times, and seen what was left of my summer's work inextricably mixed with the sub-soil, ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... at home," Dolly frowned, and, for an obvious reason, raised her voice to a high pitch, "but I'll tell you where she is, and as her own blood uncle you can share my humiliation." Therewith Dolly grimly pointed at a closet door close by. "Open it," she said. "The truth is, I told her she would have to stay there twenty minutes, and I've been bothered all through the last recitation for fear she wouldn't get enough air. All at once ...

— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben

... might just as well confess to you that I'm no angel. If I were I'd fly out of Texas till the bifurcated Democratic party has another "harmony" deal. When you hear people denouncing me as an atheist, just retire to your closet and pray, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." And you might add, that nobody cares. No mortal son of Adam's misery can produce one line I ever wrote, or quote one sentence I ever uttered, disrespectful of ANY religion—and that's more ...

— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... toward the bed, the count who had opened a closet, stopped him with an imperious gesture, holding out a purse. Beauvouloir saw within its red silk meshes a quantity of gold, which the count now flung ...

— The Hated Son • Honore de Balzac

... he had not been there ten minutes before he began to move from one place to another. He was of a bold, resolute temper, but not overburdened with principle; for if he could have opened every cupboard, closet, and drawer in the house, without being found out, he ...

— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

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