closet

Forms

1.A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
- A Closet full of shelves.. it.. should therefore be called a Cupboard rather than a Closet.
- She came in now, but to the closet; from it she took a simple skirt and blouse. Picking up her underclothing she departed, obviously to dress somewhere else.
2.A private cabinet, (particularly):
- He's so far in the closet, he can see Narnia.
- The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.
- But heere's a Parchment.. I found it in his Closset, 'tis his Will.
3.An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
- A Closset is the halfe of the Barre, and tenne of them maie be borne in one fielde.
4.A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.

1.Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
2.Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).
- I wonder if there is another in the world that could produce, among perfectly normal people, this strangest quirk in the agenda of liquordom, the closet drinker.

1.To shut away for private discussion.
- The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
2.To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
- He had been closeted with De Quadra.
- He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.

Uncommon· #3591

From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum.

Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.