Crossword clues for closeted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Closet \Clos"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Closeted p. pr. & vb. n. Closeting.]
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To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal. [R.]
Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge.
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To make into a closet for a secret interview.
He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
--Bancroft.He had been closeted with De Quadra.
--Froude.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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(context informal English) Not open about one's homosexuality. Etymology 2
a. confined. v
(en-past of: closet)
Wikipedia
Closeted and in the closet are adjectives for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender etc. ( LGBT) people who have not disclosed their sexual orientation or gender identity and aspects thereof, including sexual identity and sexual behavior. It can also be used to describe anyone who is hiding part of their identity because of social pressure.
Usage examples of "closeted".
And while the closeted, flatulent men showed no shame, at the urinals men acted nervous.
On the second morning Hugh Stanbury called at the parsonage, and was closeted for a while with the parson.
He came on the Saturday, and it was so managed that he was closeted with Camilla before Arabella knew that he was in the house.
It keeps me from thinking about other things, like Alanna, or the fact that your father and mine are closeted with Hermes Aldaran, trying to hammer out some policy without even a clue as to what the Federation might decide to do.
Ever since we got to Darkover, you have been closeted with other people, plotting something I have no knowledge of.
He had been closeted in Comyn Castle for years, except for his time at Arilinn, and one visit to the Alton Domain years earlier.
Fullaway, a City police-inspector and a detective were already closeted with the landlord and landlady.
I knew that, closeted far within, the vampires of the theater were in their coffins already.
I was running through dark corridors I hadn't explored before, bathing old wooden doors with the kerosene, certain that the vampires lay closeted within, rushing on cat feet into the theater itself, where a cold, gray light, seeping from the bolted front entrance, sped me on to fling a dark -stain across the great velvet stage curtain, the padded chairs, the draperies of the lobby doors.
But I promise you, they will all die as you have died, everyone who was closeted there this dawn will die.
After he had met Steve, and Steve had spent some time at Dad's bedside, Steve, Captain Fiske, and Colonel Giancarlo had spent hours closeted together, and that bothered Diego.
And he and Rawdon the younger many a time would walk to Gaunt Street, and sit with the lady and the children there while Sir Pitt was closeted with Rebecca, on his way to the House, or on his return from it.
Rawdon Crawley was closeted there, found the Baronet and his sister-in-law.