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attic

/ˈætɪk/ noun B1
  1. 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.
  2. A storey or a parapet above the cornice of a classical façade, often decorated.
  3. A person's head or brain. (slang)

Plural attics

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He then led the way inside, and went over the whole building from basement to attic.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 59 · C1
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.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 255 · C1
“I feel just like studying with might and main,” she declared as she brought her books down from the attic.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 259 · C1
The dusty attic spider-clad
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 21 · C1

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