Closets
[klɔzits]
Examples
- In hydraulics there are rams, water closets, pumps, and turbine water wheels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The shops here are mere coops, mere boxes, bath-rooms, closets--any thing you please to call them--on the first floor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Clothes are laid away in drawers and hung in closets not only for protection against dust, but also against the well-known power of light to weaken color. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- About 3,500 patents have been granted for water closets and bath appliances, and about 900 patents on sewerage alone, the most of which are directed to improved conditions of sanitation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The nineteenth century has seen a revolution in _baths_ and accompanying _closets_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I wish some of your northern servants could look at her closets of dresses,--silks and muslins, and one real linen cambric, she has hanging there. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Editor: Monica