cockloft

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My case was a desperate one, and I might have acceded to his proposal if he had not unguardedly added that I should have to sleep in a cockloft in the shed!

From Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by Sleeper, John Sherburne

Balked greed and craven fear tore at Legrand's very soul when he returned to the cockloft in the Faubourg St. Antoine and found it empty.

From The Light That Lures by Brebner, Percy James

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

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

Sot is an old word that signifies a dunce, dullard, jolthead, gull, wittol, or noddy, one without guts in his brains, whose cockloft is unfurnished, and, in short, a fool.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Often the cockloft is empty, in those which Nature hath built many stories high.

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John