Closed area destined to a given purpose.
1 In a closed place it might make trouble.
2 Rather astonishingly, the air of the long- closed place was neither musty nor damp, when we stepped in.
3 It is ill to waste breath in wondering how the creature got into this long- closed place or how it lived.
5 Already the atmosphere was beginning to be tainted, as it always becomes in a closed place when no fresh oxygen can enter.
6 Familiar instances are fear of open places (agoraphobia), fear of closed places (claustrophobia), and fear of contamination (mysophobia).
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