attic

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  1. noun A story or room directly below the roof of a building, especially a house.
  2. noun A low wall or story above the cornice of a classical façade.

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  • Crouched in the farthest reaches of the attic was a lone leather trunk. —  NOBODY'S DARLING
  • Half of the attic was already filled with castoffs— furniture, mirrors, boxes, crates, Joey's crib. —  Judith Stacy- Written in the Heart
  • I am in the front attic, which is the bedchamber to be preferred. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
  • Calculate your own list as each our controllers know this and FOOD will be the attic is a good place to put it as long as it isn't heavy. will be different. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • It almost is in worse shape than my attic was a year ago. —  Krafty Librarian
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  1. From Attic story, story of a building enclosed by one decorative structure placed above another, much taller decorative structure, usually involving the Attic order, an architectural order having square columns of any of the basic five orders, from French attique, from attique, Attic, from Latin Atticus; see Attic.

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  1. = French attique = Spanish ático = Portuguese Italian attico, an attic, from Latin Atticus, Attic: see Attic, and extract below.
 

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