I have always heard it called a press. And the one I remember so well is not like the closets we have today, but a hole in the wall , big enough to hold about 3 or 4 items, and the one I saw had no doors. I think they hung some type of curtain over it. Glad someone else knows what a press is. Everytime I slip back into my "hillbilly" ways, I call a closet a press, and everyone looks at me like what am I talking about. Maybe it is a Kentucky expression. Or should I say Hillbilly. And where did the term Hillbilly come from????????? Does anyone know?????????