garret - What does it mean?

Noun

(en-noun)

An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.

* 1660 , Samuel Pepys Diary'', January 1.

This morning (we living lately in the garret ,) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them.

* {{quote-book|year=1866|author= (translated by Constance Garnett)|title=Crime and Punishment|section=Part I, Chapter I citation

|passage=On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.}}

* {{quote-book|year=1895|author=|title=Lilith

|passage=I was in the main garret , with huge beams and rafters over my head, great spaces around me, a door here and there in sight, and long vistas whose gloom was thinned by a few lurking cobwebbed windows and small dusky skylights.}}