GARRET
Garret
A garret is generally synonymous in modern usage with a habitable attic or small living space at the top of a house. In the days before lifts this was the least prestigious position in a building, and often had sloping ceilings. It entered Middle English via Old French with a military connotation of a watchtower or something akin to a garrison, in other words a place for guards or soldiers to be quartered in a house. Like garrison it comes from an Old French word garir of ultimately Germanic origin meaning to provide or defend.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Garret
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garret
Noun
- An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
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