garret

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Having given up his own room for the garret, he now gave up his garret--a matter of greater self-denial--to share his own room with Morely, that the garret might be made a place for evening work.

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  1. noun A room on the top floor of a house, typically under a pitched roof; an attic.

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  • Certain corners in the rooms had the same effect on her as toys that have been stored away in a garret, and that one comes across years after. —  Renée Mauperin
  • Somebody suggested the garret, and they all trooped up there and searched every corner in vain. —  Cricket at the Seashore
  • Vessels and dishes that were used all the year round were put away in the garret, and special vessels were brought out for the Passover week. —  The Promised Land
  • Gongs that urged and threatened; and of a certain German individual who lived in a garret, and who growled like a savage beast if she made the slightest sound as she passed her door The next two weeks fairly flew along, and Blue Bonnet was too busy to be homesick. —  Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
  • I went into my garret, and told my book about it, and if I must confess the truth, I am afraid I cried a little. —  Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow
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  1. Middle English, from Old French garite, watchtower, from garir, to defend, of Germanic origin; see wer-4 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also garet, garett; from Middle English garett, garette, garite, a watch-tower, from Old French garite, French guérite = Spanish garita = Portuguese guarita, a place of refuge, place of lookout, a watch-tower, from Old French garir, older warir, preserve, save, keep, French guérir, cure, = Provencal garir = Old Spanish OPg. guarir = Italian guarire, guerire, from Goth, warjan = Old High German werian, weren, German wehren, defend, = Anglo-Saxon warian, hold, defend, werian, defend, from wær, ware, wary: see ware, wary.
  2. Origin not ascertained.
 

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