a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building
bought a charming Victorian house with a garret that she hoped to turn into a writing room
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Recent Examples of garretThe whole thing felt like my own private Parisian garret, with every nook and cranny carefully appointed.—Vogue, 8 July 2024 Instead, the second-wittiest joke of Coup de Chance is Alain seducing Fanny in his struggling-artist garret.—Armond White, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024 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.—The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 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.—Édouard Louis, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for garret
Projects such as additions, finished attics, basements and other substantial improvements have resulted in measurable increases in assessed value.
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Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
8 Feb. 2026
While most of us can tackle tidying up our homes every so often, that just might involve stashing stuff in closets, attics, garages, craft rooms, and storage sheds.