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 garretInstead, 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 At that time, the garret had little headspace and no bathroom.—Curbed, 17 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for garret
Oenophiles can store their bottle collection in the wine cellar, and those looking for more space can convert the walk-in attic into additional bedrooms, a home office, etc.
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Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
4 Oct. 2025
Indoors, they can be found in dark areas like closets, garages, basements, attics and cupboards.
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