Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Protected by or provided with garrets or turrets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Protected by turrets.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Protected by
turrets .
Etymologies
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garret + -ed
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Examples
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In the present work of men, meanness, aimlessness, unsightliness: thin-walled, lath-divided, narrow-garreted houses of clay; booths of a darksome Vanity Fair, busily base.
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859
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It is built square, with a rouod turret at each end, garreted on the top} and the hall rising in the midst, above the rest, yieldetb a stately sound as you enter it The parlour and dining-room give you large and diversified pros* pect of land; and overlooks St Nicholas island (lying in the mouth of the harbour), the royal citadel, Pljmaouth tawn.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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