#553 garret

garret- another word for attic

C14 from Old French garite, watchtower, from garir to protect, of Germanic origin

He still inhabited the upper room, which he calls a garret; it would not seem that the alteration in his status, assistant now and no longer apprentice, had increased his social conveniences.

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