loft

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  1. noun A large, usually unpartitioned floor over a factory, warehouse, or other commercial or industrial space.
  2. noun Such a floor converted into an apartment or artist's studio.
  3. noun An open space under a roof; an attic or garret.
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  • Ten minutes, and the loft was a good twenty blocks away Jody was quickstepping along the alleyway that came out in front of their old loft. —  Christopher Moore - You Suck
  • So it turns out that the bronze statue that used to be in the loft was actually the vampyre who turned the Countess, and then the Countess turned the vampyre Flood, except he was just Flood then. —  Christopher Moore - You Suck
  • He would not otherwise have realised that the loft was available for occupation. —  The Crozier Pharohs - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 66
  • But mostly the loft is an architectural wonder, with a two-story library in the entryway and a guest suite accessed by a ladder. —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • Momma's Man more than a dollop of local color; that Mikey's parents are played by the filmmaker's own, the artists Ken and Flo Jacobs, and the loft is the place where he actually grew up provides the film with considerable emotional resonance. —  Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
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  1. Middle English, sky, upstairs room, from Old English, air, from Old Norse lopt, upstairs room, sky, air.

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  1. from Middle English loft, the air (especially in the phr. a loft, on loft), an upper room, from Icelandic loft, now spelled lopt, the air, sky, an upper room, = Swedish Danish loft, ceiling, loft, garret, = Anglo-Saxon lyft, the air: see lift. Cf. aloft.
  2. from loft, n.
  3. loft, n.
 

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