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garret

[gar-it] / ˈgær ɪt /
NOUN
attic
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In central Paris, a thousand vulnerable people living in top-floor, garret apartments died because the city’s famous heat-absorbing zinc roofs turned their uninsulated homes into ovens.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2023

In May 1976, Rybakov’s close friend, dissident artist Yevgeny Rukhin, died in a fire in his garret studio in St. Petersburg, where he was meeting with friends.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022

The romantic image of the writer in the garret doesn't do justice to the tedious reality of churning out words, one after another.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2022

Our little garret had a great view, but confronting six flights of stairs after walking around Paris all day wasn’t fun.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2022

Deserted by him and nearly everybody else, bed-bound in a garret, she discovers in herself a sense of humor.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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