Shuts up; hides

Usage examples of closets.

Sabatini had become a rich man by constructing drains, sewers, and closets for a city of fourteen thousand houses.

I went down about a hundred steps, and found forty small closets which I concluded were bathing machines.

I said I would, and he opened one of the closets, and before long I surrounded by a crowd of young girls.

As the rain hardened, basins and pots were fetched from the closets where they were stored between storms and positioned beneath the usual roof leaks.

So many items, long lost, had turned up as closets and drawers were turned out, items long lost on purpose-old report cards, sweaters she hated, books dropped into the bath.

They turned on all the lights, and looked in the closets and behind the shower curtains.

Cleaning out my closets is the perfect way for me to spend New Year's Eve.

I wish some of your northern servants could look at her closets of dresses,--silks and muslins, and one real linen cambric, she has hanging there.

While she was thinking what to say, Marie gradually wiped away her tears, and smoothed her plumage in a general sort of way, as a dove might be supposed to make toilet after a shower, and began a housewifely chat with Miss Ophelia, concerning cupboards, closets, linen-presses, store-rooms, and other matters, of which the latter was, by common understanding, to assume the direction, --giving her so many cautious directions and charges, that a head less systematic and business-like than Miss Ophelia's would have been utterly dizzied and confounded.

The more drawers and closets there were, the more hiding-holes could Dinah make for the accommodation of old rags, hair-combs, old shoes, ribbons, cast-off artificial flowers, and other articles of _vertu_, wherein her soul delighted.