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closet(2) (iou) and Palatinate (sh)


closet(2) (iou)



closet verb trans. L16.
[from the noun.]
Shut up (or up) in a closet; detain for a private consultation etc. Freq. in pass., be in private consultation (with).
Ld Macaulay Some of the Churchmen whom he had closeted had offered to make large concessions. C. S. Forester He was closeted alone with Hudson for a long time.

Palatinate (sh)




German Pfalz

Historical region, now part of Germany.

The region was once under the jurisdiction of the counts palatine (secular princes), who in the 14th century became electors of the Holy Roman Empire. In the 16th and 17th centuries the Palatinate was a stronghold of Protestantism. It was divided into two parts: the Lower, or Rhenish, Palatinate, on both sides of the Rhine River in the area south of the Main River; and the Upper Palatinate, in northern Bavaria around Amberg and Regensburg. The boundaries of the Palatinate varied with the political and dynastic fortunes of the counts palatine.