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a small dark room where you store both sweaters and entire secret identities
means A small enclosed space or room used for storage, especially of clothes or supplies.
from From Old French 'closet,' a diminutive of 'clos' meaning 'enclosure' or 'enclosed space,' itself from Latin 'clausum,' the past participle of 'claudere,' 'to close' or 'shut.' So a closet is literally a 'little closed-off place' — and the phrase 'closeted,' meaning kept private, leans on that same sense of a thing shut away from view.
- latin root
- from 'clausum,' meaning a small enclosed space
- private origin
- once a tiny room for prayer or scheming
- hidden monster
- childhood's favorite address for things that lurk
- narnia portal
- a wardrobe doubles as a gateway to other worlds
- skeleton storage
- the metaphor for secrets predates the closet itself
tom cruise — actor rumored to be closeted for decades despite speculation since the 1980s
alan turing — british mathematician prosecuted under british law in 1952 for homosexuality
rock hudson — hollywood actor kept sexuality secret until aids diagnosis revealed it in 1985