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  • It may serve as a clothes-closet, by filling the wall with cupboards, and concealing them with mirrored doors.

    The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe

  • The big wardrobe, which was a bureau and a clothes-closet all in one, moved out into the middle of the room, and the stove fell down.

    Stories Worth Rereading Various

  • So it happened one day that he wanted a particular coat which had been put away in her clothes-closet -- and she was on her knees between him and it, with the time of her Amen quite indefinite.

    An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

  • She had removed and hung up in the clothes-closet the beautiful furs, dress, and hat.

    Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Annie Roe Carr

  • Behind them were screwed hooks and these hooks functioned as a clothes-closet.

    A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

  • Over him, hanging on the "clothes-closet" hooks, were revealed an old straw hat, an old coat and a worn shirt.

    A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

  • Buck, following in a leisurely manner, hands in pockets, stood in the bedroom door and watched her plunge into the innermost depths of the clothes-closet.

    Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926

  • It was due to her that no feminine clothes-closet was complete without a

    Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926

  • In one corner, a curtain on a rod made a clothes-closet; in another was a low iron bed, like a soldier’s, with a pale blue coverlid and white pillows.

    X. Book Five: “Bidding the Eagles of the West Fly On 1922

  • Later McKann threw the slipper into the wastebasket in his room at the Knickerbocker, but the chambermaid, seeing that it was new and mate-less, thought there must be a mistake, and placed it in his clothes-closet.

    Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920

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