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closeted, ppl. a.|ˈklɒzɪtɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. Shut up in, or as in, a closet; kept in a closet; secret, hidden; private, retired.
1684Charnock Attrib. God (1834) I. 536 The thoughts are the most closeted acts of man. 1763F. Brooke Lady J. Mandeville (1782) I. 141 Closeted moralists, strangers to the human heart. 1883E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Dec. 51/1 A household that..possessed no closeted skeleton.
2. [f. closet n.] Furnished with closets.
1885Jrnl. Science July 389 The Sewage of an unclosetted town..as that of a thoroughly closetted town. |