Wall closet in a residential house in the U.S.

It is common for a mirror to be placed on the inside of a closet door. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A mirror is an object with a surface that has good Specular reflection; that is it is smooth enough to form an Image.

A closet (especially in North American usage) is a small and enclosed space, a cabinet, or a cupboard in a house or building used for general storage or hanging clothes. North American English is a collective term used for the varieties of the English language that are spoken in North America, namely in the United States A cabinet is usually a box-shaped form either standing alone as a piece of furniture or built into or attached to a wall (such as a Medicine cabinet typically made of wood A cupboard (ˈkʌbɚd or press ( Hiberno-English) is a type of cabinet, often made of wood used indoors to store household objects such as food and crockery House generally refers to a Shelter or Building that is a Dwelling or place for Habitation by Human beings. In Architecture, Construction, Engineering and real estate development the word building may refer to one of the following Any man-made A closet for food storage is usually referred to as a pantry. A pantry is a room where Food, provisions or dishes are stored and served in an ancillary capacity to the Kitchen. A closet, through French from Latin clausum, "closed" began life in the seventeenth century as a small private room, often behind a bedroom, to which a man or woman could retire, for privacy, reading, or enjoyment of personal works of art: for this usage, see Cabinet (architecture). A cabinet was one of a number of terms for a private room in the Domestic architecture and that of Palaces of Early Modern Europe, serving as

Modern closets can be built into the walls of the house during construction so that they take up no apparent space in the bedroom, or they can be a large, free-standing piece of furniture designed for clothes storage, in which case they are often called a wardrobe or armoire. Furniture is the Mass noun for the movable objects which may support the human body (seating furniture and beds, provide storage or hold objects on horizontal Clothing (also called clothes, accoutrements, accouterments, or habiliments) protects the Human body from extreme Weather A wardrobe (sometimes called an " armoire " is a standing closet used for storing Clothes. A wardrobe (sometimes called an " armoire " is a standing closet used for storing Clothes. Closets are often built under stairs, thereby using awkward space that would otherwise go unused. In current British usage, a "wardrobe" can also be built-in, and the word "cupboard" can be used to refer to a closet. British English or UK English ( BrE, BE, en-GB) is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the In Elizabethan and Middle English, closet referred to a larger room in which a person could sit and read in private, but now refers to a small room in general^[1]. Romance and reality The Victorian era and the early twentieth century idealised the Elizabethan era Middle English is the name given by Historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of In Indian usage, a closet often refers to a toilet. Indian English comprises several Dialects or varieties of English spoken primarily in India, and by first-generation members of the Indian diaspora A toilet is a Plumbing fixture and disposal system primarily intended for the disposal of the bodily wastes: Urine and fecal matter. This probably originated from the word 'water closet', which means a flush toilet.

In North America, chests, trunks and wall-mounted pegs typically provided storage prior to World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Built-in wall closets were uncommon and where they did exist, they tended to be small and shallow. Following World War II, however, deeper, more generously sized closets were introduced to new housing designs, which proved to be very attractive to buyers. It has even been suggested that the closet was a major factor in peoples' migration to the suburbs.

Closet tax question

Though some sources claim that colonial American houses often lacked closets because of a "closet tax" imposed by the British crown,^[2] others argue that closets were absent in most houses simply because their residents had few possessions. ^[3]

The closet in pop culture

Figuratively, a closet is a place where one hides things; "having skeletons in one's closet" is a figure of speech for having particularly sensitive secrets. A figure of speech, sometimes Thus, closet as an adjective means secret—usually with a connotation of vice or shame, as in "a closet alcoholic" or "a closet homosexual," though sometimes used as a humorous exaggeration for any potential embarrassment, as in "a closet comic book fan. The software program VICE (all caps standing for V ersat' I' le C ommodore E mulator, is an Emulator for Commodore Shame is variously an affect emotion cognition state or condition Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative " To "come out of the closet" is to admit your secrets publicly, but this is now used almost exclusively in reference to homosexuality. Closeted Coming out (that is " coming out of the closet " describes the voluntary public announcement of one's Sexual orientation and/or Gender identity Coming outThe expressions " closeted " or "in the closet " generally refer to undisclosed sexual behavior, Sexual orientation or Gender The documentary The Celluloid Closet uses this reference to gay people in its examination of how Hollywood films have depicted homosexuals on the screen. The Celluloid Closet ( 1995) is a Documentary film directed and written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. In the English language, gay is an Adjective that in modern usage refers to Homosexuality. This is also extensively used in a controversial episode of South Park. " Trapped in the Closet " is the twelfth episode of the ninth season of the Comedy Central series South Park.

Psychologically, bedroom closets are the center of many childhood fears. Fear is an Emotional response to Threats and Danger. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific Stimulus, such as Children fear during the night that a monster or any other paranormal creature hides inside the closet, and is destined to frighten the child. A monster is any of a large number of Legendary creatures which usually appear in Mythology, Legend, or Horror fiction. This is a common theme in films. In the first of the Poltergeist movies, the closet was the area of the family house the ghosts hid in to kidnap the child. The Poltergeist movies are a trilogy of Horror films produced in the 1980s A ghost is said to be the apparition of a Deceased person frequently similar in appearance to that person and usually encountered in places she or he frequented In Criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or Asportation of a person against the person's will usually to hold the person in False imprisonment And the "monster in the closet" fear was developed for comedic possibilities in film Monsters, Inc., in which monsters teleport into children's closets at night from a central location in order to scare them as a means of collecting screams, which run the monster economy. Monsters Inc is a 2001 Computer animated Comedy film and the fourth feature-length film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. In the newspaper comic Bloom County, the character Binkley had an "anxiety closet" in his bedroom, from which his fears would manifest themselves, while he was sleeping. Bloom County was an American Comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989 For example, a librarian wielding a battle-axe, which then struck the headboard of his bed, attacked due to an overdue library book. Similarly, Opus the penguin from the Sunday strip Opus also has a closet which houses his worries. Opus the Penguin ( Opus T Penguin) is a character in the Comic strips and Children's books of Berkeley Breathed, most notably the popular 1980s Opus was a Sunday strip drawn by Berkeley Breathed for a period of circa five years from 2003 to 2008

Types of closets

• Broom closet: A narrow floor-to-ceiling space for the storage of lengthy items. To come out of the Broom closet = To admit to being a witch
• Coat closet: A coat closet is a closet of a house where people store their hoods, jackets and coats. A coat closet is typically located in the entryway, so that it is close to the front door.
• Linen closet: A tall, narrow closet, typically located in or near bathrooms and/or bedrooms. Such a closet contains shelves used to hold towels, washcloths, sheets, and toiletries.
• Wall closet: A very shallow closet closed off from a room by a curtain or folding doors, with only enough depth to hang clothes or store them folded on shelves.
• Walk-in closet: A closet large enough to walk inside to store clothes on two or three sides. They may have lighting, mirrors, and flooring distinct from adjacent rooms.
• Utility closet: A closet used for permanently housing appliances, most commonly the heating/cooling unit and water heater, especially in apartments where they cannot be put in a garage, attic, or basement.
• A water closet (WC) is not a storage closet but a flush toilet. A flush toilet or Water Closet (WC is a Toilet that disposes of human waste by using water to flush it through a drainpipe to another location The term comes from the British English definition of a closet as a small private room. British English or UK English ( BrE, BE, en-GB) is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the In this case, it was a small private room with running water.

See also

• Trapped in the Closet – South Park episode

References

1. ^ AskOxford: closet
2. ^ Old Stone House. " Trapped in the Closet " is the twelfth episode of the ninth season of the Comedy Central series South Park. South Park is an animated American television comedy series created and written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for Comedy Central National Park Service.
3. ^ Stuff and Nonsense. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Association.