: a room or unfinished part of a house just under the roof
Examples of garret in a Sentence
bought a charming Victorian house with a garret that she hoped to turn into a writing room
Recent Examples on the Web
For centuries thereafter, the uppermost floors remained least desirable (think servants’ quarters and Parisian garrets) until the invention of the commercial passenger elevator in the 1850s.
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The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
At that time, the garret had little headspace and no bathroom.
—Curbed, 17 Jan. 2024
In bed, under the sloping roof of our Paris garret, C said that we should get married.
—Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
For all those years her room was part of the architecture and geography of my being: a small attic with a garret window, poorly lit, hot in the summer.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Inside is an 1,100-square-foot home whose sloping eaves somehow give an apartment — in spitting distance of Murray Hill — the feel of a cozy attic garret.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 5 Jan. 2023
With new windows and skylights, new insulation and upgraded electrical and HVAC systems, the once dark and uninspired garret became a sunny penthouse.
—Maile Pingel, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
This was no garret.
—New York Times, 21 May 2021
But Ho is no poet in a garret.
—Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
At that time, the garret had little headspace and no bathroom.
—Curbed, 17 Jan. 2024
In bed, under the sloping roof of our Paris garret, C said that we should get married.
—Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
For all those years her room was part of the architecture and geography of my being: a small attic with a garret window, poorly lit, hot in the summer.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Inside is an 1,100-square-foot home whose sloping eaves somehow give an apartment — in spitting distance of Murray Hill — the feel of a cozy attic garret.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 5 Jan. 2023
With new windows and skylights, new insulation and upgraded electrical and HVAC systems, the once dark and uninspired garret became a sunny penthouse.
—Maile Pingel, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
This was no garret.
—New York Times, 21 May 2021
But Ho is no poet in a garret.
—Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
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“Garret.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garret. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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garret
noun
gar·ret
ˈgar-ət 
: a room or unfinished part of a house just under the roof
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