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Definition of Garrets
1. garret [n] - See also: garret
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garrets
Literary usage of Garrets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conversations with Distinguished Persons During the Second Empire, from 1860 by Nassau William Senior (1880)
"DEF—This house contains five floors, besides the ground-floor and the garrets.
It is about 100 feet long and 50 broad. On each floor are two apartments, ..."
2. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1823)
"In the first place, no room can dispute with garrets for healthfulness : here
the air is clearer and fresher, more .subject to winds, and of course less ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1849)
"Cannot some of our readers draw forth from the dust and obscurity of their garrets
an early edition of this curious little book, and forward it to the ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1857)
"After making this discovery, I extended my observations to a number of smaller
rooms and garrets, and found, without exception, that the occupiers of the ..."
5. Conversations with Distinguished Persons During the Second Empire, from 1860 by Nassau William Senior (1880)
"DEF—This house contains five floors, besides the ground-floor and the garrets.
It is about 100 feet long and 50 broad. On each floor are two apartments, ..."
6. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1823)
"In the first place, no room can dispute with garrets for healthfulness : here
the air is clearer and fresher, more .subject to winds, and of course less ..."
7. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1849)
"Cannot some of our readers draw forth from the dust and obscurity of their garrets
an early edition of this curious little book, and forward it to the ..."
8. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1857)
"After making this discovery, I extended my observations to a number of smaller
rooms and garrets, and found, without exception, that the occupiers of the ..."
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