vbl. sb. [f. CLOSET v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb CLOSET; spec. a private conference (esp. between two persons).
1687. Ellis Corr. (1828), I. 291. Lord Woster’s regiment is given to Lord Montgomery … the cashiered Lord cries aloud by closeting.
1762. Hume, Hist. Eng. (1806), V. lxx. 264. [James II.] had employed … with the members of parliament many private conferences, which were then called closetings.
1880. Lucy B. Walford, Troublesome Daughters, II. xxi. 195. All the little kindnesses, the sisterly closetings … which had of late sprung up between them.
