garret

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof

Simplified etymology

Garret comes from Old French garite, derived from garir, meaning “to defend” or “provide.” Its earliest recorded meaning was “watchtower,” while its familiar sense of a room on the top floor of a house appeared by the late 15th century.

From Middle English garett, garite, from Old French garite, guerite (“watchtower”), from garir, guarir (“to defend, protect”) (compare English garrison), ultimately of Germanic origin (see English garage). Doublet of guerite.

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