2. Adjective. (slang) Not open about one's homosexuality. ¹
3. Verb. (past of closet) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Closeted
1. closet [v] - See also: closet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Closeted
Literary usage of Closeted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover by Doran (John) (1875)
"Indisposition of the Queen—Her anxiety to conceal the cause—Wai pole" closeted
with her—Her ... closeted ..."
2. The Ellis Correspondence: Letters Written During the Years 1686, 1687, 1688 by John Ellis (1829)
"The writer closeted with the King.—The Army at Hounslow. London, June 26th, 1680.
DEAR SIR, YOUR'S of the 15th came the 23d to hand, when I was just going ..."
3. The Works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë (1896)
"closeted there, silent and solitary, what could she do but think ? She noiselessly
paced to and fro the carpeted floor, her head drooped, her hands folded ..."
4. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by G. W. Hastings, Andr. Edgar, Edw. Pears, Ch. W. Ryalls (1878)
"I recently visited Croydon, with a sanitary officer sent by the King of Belgium,
and asked : Were the 16000 houses there all water-closeted?—Yes, they were. ..."
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