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      closet
      noun
      A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
      A private cabinet, (particularly):
      (figuratively) A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.
      (now chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Any small room or side room.
      (US, Philippines) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
      (heraldry) 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.
      (slang, uncommon) Clipping of closet case. [(slang) A person who conceals or denies their sexuality or gender identity.]
      (obsolete) Any private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.
      (now rare) Any private or inner room, (particularly):
      (obsolete) A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.
      (archaic) A private room used for prayer or other devotions.
      (figuratively, archaic) A place of (usually, fanciful) contemplation and theorizing.
      (archaic) The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.
      (obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
      (obsolete) One used to store valuables.
      (archaic) One used to store curiosities.
      (Scotland, obsolete) A sewer.
      (archaic) A compendium of knowledge, possibly from closet as a room?
      (obsolete) Clipping of closet of ease, (later, UK) clipping of water closet: a room containing a toilet. [(euphemistic, obsolete) A room used to ease one's bowels: a lavatory.]
      verb
      (transitive) To shut away for private discussion.
      (transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
      (transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
      adjective
      Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).
      Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
      (obsolete) Private.
      Roots
      claudoclos- · Latin · close, shut
      Synonyms for closet
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