Other forms: garrets
A garret is a small room right under the roof. A cold garret, live in a garret, the garret window.
It is the cheapest room in the house, freezing in winter and baking in summer, which is why the starving poet in a garret became a stock image of the nineteenth century. The word first meant a watchtower, from the same root as garrison.
1noungarretA small room under the roof.
“The young artist lived in a cold garret at the top of a Paris building.”
garret is a room.
The French behind it is a tower you watch from. A garret is the little room at the top, up under the roof.
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Old French garite means a watchtower, from garir, to defend. Garrison comes from the same root.
Old French
garite
Middle English
garett
English, today
garret
Built from
From Middle English garett, garite, from Old French garite, guerite (“watchtower”), from garir, guarir (“to defend, protect”) (compare English garrison), ultimately of gem - origin (see English garage). a doublet of guerite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire