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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
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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
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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
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She had removed and hung up in the clothes-closet the beautiful furs, dress, and hat.
Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Annie Roe Carr
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Behind them were screwed hooks and these hooks functioned as a clothes-closet.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929
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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
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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
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It was due to her that no feminine clothes-closet was complete without a
Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926
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In one corner, a curtain on a rod made a clothes-closet; in another was a low iron bed, like a soldiers, with a pale blue coverlid and white pillows.
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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.
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