garret
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- n floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
- On the other hand, garret-dwelling, check-bouncing, alimony-dodging authors will find that a light-bulb has popped on in their minds.
- Ludwig van Beethoven fiddled at five; Johann Sebas tian Bach permitted himself, a small moppet, to be discovered poring over music at night in the garret.
- He quit the monastery and moved into a garret in Paris.