closet
/ˈklɑzɪt/ noun A2- A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
- A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet. · The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.· He's so far in the closet, he can see Narnia.
- One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
- An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
- A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
- The state of having one's sexual orientation a secret.
Plural closets
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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.
He glanced around, looked in the bed, shook the curtains, opened the closets, and finally stopped at the chimney.
Then he ran to one of the cupboards in Valentine’s room, which had been transformed into a medicine closet, and taking from its silver case a small bottle of nitric acid, dropped a little of it into the liquor, which immediately changed to a blood-red color.
The King’s Closet at the Tuileries
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