Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
garret
IPA transcription: [ɡ'ɛɹɪt]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
loft, attic, garret
Meaning:
floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
Usage examples
I fell from the garret that time.
"I climb up to the garret every day.
I might fall from the garret again to-morrow.
"Come, sirs," he heard him say, "light me to their garret.
"I'm giving Anne that half dozen braided rugs I have in the garret.
She had moved from the wall of the garret, very near to the bench on which he sat.
It is better to possess it, living in a garret, than to be the inhabitant of palaces without it.
One of her chief entertainments was to sit in her garret, or walk about it, and "suppose" things.
That night she sat in her room till all was still, and then she stole into the garret and began a search.
He said to her in a very gruff voice, "Here you, Mary, you go up into the garret and bring down the cradle."