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cockloft

[kok-lawft, -loft] / ˈkɒkˌlɔft, -ˌlɒft /
NOUN
garret
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They found themselves in a long narrow cockloft, not more than six feet high at the highest, and insufferably hot. 

From Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France by Stanley John Weyman

And this here most august and upper-crust cockloft is the Conscrumptive Hospital.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes

A few roughly fashioned seats and tables, and a ladder staircase, leading upward to an attic or cockloft, completes the inventory of the interior.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

This little cockloft does not fill the whole of this upper story.

From The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner

Peering out through first one and then the other of the loopholes of the cockloft, he waited, and it seemed to him that he waited eternally.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford


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