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Webster 1913 Edition
Garret
Gar′ret
,Noun.
[OE.
garite
, garette
, watchtower, place of lookout, OF. garite
, also meaning, a place of refuge, F. guérite
a place of refuge, donjon, sentinel box, fr. OF. garir
to preserve, save, defend, F. guérir
to cure; of German origin; cf. OHG. werian
to protect, defend, hinder, G. wehren
, akin to Goth. warjan
to hinder, and akin to E. weir
, or perhaps to wary
. See Weir
, and cf. Guerite
.] 1.
A turret; a watchtower.
[Obs.]
He saw men go up and down on the
garrets
of the gates and walls. Ld. Berners.
2.
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. Macaulay.
Definition 2024
garret
garret
English
Noun
garret (plural garrets)
- An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
- 1660, Samuel Pepys Diary, January 1.
- This morning (we living lately in the garret,) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them.
- 1866, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by Constance Garnett), Crime and Punishment, Part I, Chapter I:
- On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
- 1895, George MacDonald, Lilith:
- I was in the main garret, with huge beams and rafters over my head, great spaces around me, a door here and there in sight, and long vistas whose gloom was thinned by a few lurking cobwebbed windows and small dusky skylights.
- 1660, Samuel Pepys Diary, January 1.
Translations
an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house
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