closet

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.

Any private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.

A slepe hym toke / In hys closet.

Any private or inner room, (particularly)

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Any private or inner room, (particularly):

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

Any private or inner room, (particularly):

When thou prayest, enter into thy closet.

Private.

Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).

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.

Denoting anything kept a secret or private.

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.

To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.

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

He had been closeted with De Quadra.

To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

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.