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 garretBalzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy by Eric Hazan
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 The whole thing felt like my own private Parisian garret, with every nook and cranny carefully appointed.—Vogue, 8 July 2024 Instead, 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 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 See All Example Sentences for garret
There’s also the Sugar Shack, a kid’s version of the Alpine Cabin with a working wood stove, loft and tons of candy and sweets (and champagne for mom and dad).
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Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
11 Mar. 2026
Specialists recommend high-loft pillows for most side sleepers, which is usually best supplied by some type of memory foam or firmer pillow.
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Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
11 Mar. 2026
But when a group of fugitives is discovered to be squatting in their attic, both their plans are thrown for a loop, as the husband and wife must now work together to survive.
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Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
14 Mar. 2026
So the unreleased manuscript ended up in a sweater box in her attic and stayed there for more than 50 years.
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Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Mar. 2026