Closet

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.

A slepe hym toke / In hys closet.

VVhen come to the place vvhere vve all vvere to dine, / (A chair-lumber'd Cloſet, juſt tvvelve feet by nine) / My friend bid me vvelcome, but ſtruck me quite dumb / VVith tidings that Johnson and Burke coud not come: […]

Closet for a lady to make her redy in, chamberette.

When thou prayest, enter into thy closet.

[A]broad and at home, at their Tables or in their Closets […]

Chaplayneȝ to þe chapeles chosen þe gate... / Þe lorde loutes þerto, & þe lady als, / In-to a comly closet coyntly ho entreȝ.

Closet, chapelle.

But heere's a Parchment... I found it in his Closset, 'tis his Will.

Mr. Tradescant and his wife told me they had been long considering upon whom to bestow their closet of curiosities when they died.

The late House of Commons have... seiz'd Closets and Writings without Information.

Went the sonne of god oute of the pryuy closet of the maydens wombe.

The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.

He's so far in the closet, he can see Narnia.

A Closset is the halfe of the Barre, and tenne of them maie be borne in one fielde.

6 o'clock TV news specials concerning a famous Hollywood movie star who has been diagnosed with [AIDS]. It had to happen sooner or later. (In fact it probably has happened sooner, but the tenor of the times and the closets of the people were no doubt more secure.)

He's a closet case.

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.

The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.

He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.

He had been closeted with De Quadra.

See what contempt is fallen on human kind; […] See Bedlam's closeted and handcuff'd charge / Surpass'd in frenzy by the mad at large;

[…] she had to look twice over her shoulder when the Gay Northeasters and the City Belles strolled down Seventh Avenue, they were so handsome. But this envy-streaked pleasure Alice closeted, and never let the girl see how she admired those ready-for-bed-in-the-street clothes.