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 garretAbout 10 years ago, Louboutin bought more garrets next to his apartment.—
Dana Thomas,
Architectural Digest,
12 Mar. 2026 One of Blake’s disciples was a young Welsh writer who arrived in London in the 1880s and took a job trawling through a garret full of old occult books, writing descriptions for a publisher’s catalogue.—
Hari Kunzru,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026 Gives himself entirely to the race, shoots like a phantom up through the opening and then stands panting in the garret, completely motionless, while his eyes become accustomed to the change of light.—Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025 As anyone who has spent time living in a Parisian garret will tell you, the romantic notion of it dies pretty quickly, especially during a sweltering summer or a teeth-chattering winter.—
Tobias Grey,
airmail.news,
13 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for garret
The new loft space expands on this vision, incorporating a new bookstore and bar alongside a performance space, gallery, archives, and offices.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
21 Aug. 2026
On Tuesday, Zach Hickerson was approached by a Daily Mail reporter outside their grandmother’s home in Greenville, about five miles from the loft apartment where Panettiere died.
Counter walked IndieWire through a maze of electrical and ventilation equipment that has accumulated additions and modifications over the decades — all of it above a massive pitch-black attic.
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Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
20 Aug. 2026
In Summit, New Jersey, fire crews responded to a blaze at a multi-unit home after an apparent lightning strike hit the chimney and caused a fire in the attic, CNN affiliate WABC reported.