Is there a selector similar to jquery closest?

[bracketfire]

Let's say there's  page structure like

/houses/1-main-st/appliances/dishwasher

And 1-main-st uses a template called House.php and dishwasher uses a template called Appliance.php.

Then let's say I use a selector to get all appliances, say, with an expired warranty.

Then I want to find the house it belongs to.

In jquery, you can use "closest('.house')" for example to locate the encapsulating house.

Is there a way to select the house in PW?  To walk "up" the page hierarchy until I get to the first one with a certain template?

I believe I can easily code one based on a technique shown by Ryan in http://processwire.com/talk/topic/2262-exclude-pages-with-unpublished-parent/?hl=selector#entry21087 but I'd hate to re-invent the wheel.

Sometime when trying to figure out selectors I find an example in these forums that makes me slap my forehead and say "Of Course!  Duh.".

[Soma]

http://cheatsheet.processwire.com/?filter=closest&advanced=1

A quick search with google "processwire closest" reveals: 

http://cheatsheet.processwire.com/page/built-in-methods-reference/page-closest-selector/

[bracketfire]

I just Googled "Total Dumbass" and my picture came up

[Soma]

No problem, we all were there. This adds another keyword to the index so the next maybe able to find it.