closet
/ˈklɑzɪt/ adjective C2- Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet). · He's a closet case.
- Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
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Morrel obeyed; the count arose, and unlocking a closet with a key suspended from his gold chain, took from it a little silver casket, beautifully carved and chased, the corners of which represented four bending figures, similar to the Caryatides, the forms of women, symbols of the angels aspiring to heaven.
But I think I’ll carry that book into the sitting room and lock it in the jam closet and give you the key.
The King’s Closet at the Tuileries
We will leave Villefort on the road to Paris, travelling—thanks to trebled fees—with all speed, and passing through two or three apartments, enter at the Tuileries the little room with the arched window, so well known as having been the favorite closet of Napoleon and Louis XVIII., and now of Louis Philippe.
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