garret

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garret (plural garrets)

1. An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.

   On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. — Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part I, Chapter 1, Constance Garnett translation.

   I was in the main garret, with huge beams and rafters over my head, great spaces around me, a door here and there in sight, and long vistas whose gloom was thinned by a few lurking cobwebbed windows and small dusky skylights. I gazed with a strange mingling of awe and pleasure: the wide expanse of garret was my own, and unexplored! - George Macdonald, "Lilith"

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• like a cat in a strange garret