attic
/ˈætɪk/ noun B1- The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation. · We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.
- A storey or a parapet above the cornice of a classical façade, often decorated.
- A person's head or brain.
Plural attics
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When Anne got home that night she stacked all her textbooks away in an old trunk in the attic, locked it, and threw the key into the blanket box.
“You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic.
The dusty attic spider-clad
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