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garret

/ˈɡæɹɪt/ noun C2
  1. An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.

Plural garrets

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There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 1 · B2
Can I have some of those pearl beads off the old pincushion in the garret to make myself a ring?
Anne of Green Gables, p. 109 · C1
I’m going to practice my recitations in the garret.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 185 · C1
It’s providential that I practiced those recitations so often up in the garret, or I’d never have been able to get through.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 198 · C1

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