garret

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.4 Anagrams

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[edit] Etymology

Middle English

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garret (plural garrets)

1. An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
   • 1866, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by Constance Garnett), Crime and Punishment^[1], Part I, Chapter I:

     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.

   • 1895, George MacDonald, Lilith:

     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.

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• like a cat in a strange garret

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aegrrt
• garter
• grater