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noun

Garret n.

A turret; a watchtower. (Obs.) "He saw men go up and down on the garrets of the gates and walls."

That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic. "The tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome."

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Etymology of 'Garret'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Garret" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the cupboard, and looked in the garret, nor crumb, nor onion, were found in either. Shame and confusion smote the heart of ...

— Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family • Andrew Archibald Paton

... saying, "By God! dear Mac, I'll tell you a secret you don't know; there is not a greater scoundrel on the face of the earth than that same Prince; he is in his heart a coward and a poltroon; would rather live in a garret with some Scotch thieves, to drink and smoak, than serve me, or any of those who have lost our estates for his family and himself. . . . He is so great a scoundrel that he will lie even when drunk: a time when all other men's hearts are most ...

— Pickle the Spy • Andrew Lang

... dusted the heavy mahogany pieces punctiliously after she had opened the bed as her sister had directed. She spread fresh towels over the wash-stand and the bureau; she made the bed. Then she thought to take the purple gown from the easy chair and carry it to the garret and put it in the trunk with the other articles of the dead woman's wardrobe which had been packed away there; BUT THE PURPLE GOWN ...

— The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural • Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

... infirmities, certain taxes paid out of the rewards for the amorous labours of the young. This seraglio of Great Britain is disposed into convenient alleys and apartments, and every house, from the cellar to the garret, inhabited by nymphs of different orders, that persons of every rank may be accommodated with an immediate consort, to allay their flames, and partake of their cares. Here it is, that when Aurengezebe ...

— The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 • George A. Aitken

... Rhine, where he rose to the rank of sergeant. He might have remained a soldier, but that, his only son having been shot dead at his side, he deserted and returned to Lyons to recover his wife. He found her in a garret still employed at her old trade of straw-bonnet making. While living in concealment with her, his mind reverted to the inventions over which he had so long brooded in former years; but he had no means wherewith to prosecute them. Jacquard found it ...

— Self Help • Samuel Smiles

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