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Definition of Garreted
1. a. Protected by turrets.
Definition of Garreted
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Protected by turrets. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Garreted
1. garret [adj] - See also: garret
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garreted
Literary usage of Garreted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"The phrase," not rightly garreted" means, something wrong in " the top storey."
Spoken of a weak and silly person, whose brain is not well furnished. ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County by William Douglas Parish, William Francis Shaw (1888)
"The phrase, " not rightly garreted," means, something wrong in " the top storey"
Spoken of a weak and silly person, whose brain is not well furnished. ..."
3. Selections and Essays by John Ruskin (1918)
"In the present work of men, meanness, aimlessness, unsightliness: thin- walled,
lath-divided, narrow-garreted houses of clay; booths of a darksome Vanity ..."
4. American Literature: 1607-1885 by Charles Francis Richardson (1893)
"... of life not less attractive because .its antique grandeur now seems as faded
and thin as the garreted satins in which it once was resplendent. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"The phrase," not rightly garreted" means, something wrong in " the top storey."
Spoken of a weak and silly person, whose brain is not well furnished. ..."
6. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County by William Douglas Parish, William Francis Shaw (1888)
"The phrase, " not rightly garreted," means, something wrong in " the top storey"
Spoken of a weak and silly person, whose brain is not well furnished. ..."
7. Selections and Essays by John Ruskin (1918)
"In the present work of men, meanness, aimlessness, unsightliness: thin- walled,
lath-divided, narrow-garreted houses of clay; booths of a darksome Vanity ..."
8. American Literature: 1607-1885 by Charles Francis Richardson (1893)
"... of life not less attractive because .its antique grandeur now seems as faded
and thin as the garreted satins in which it once was resplendent. ..."
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