Meaning & use
garrets
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Small, often cramped rooms located directly under the roof of a house, traditionally used as living quarters for the poor or as artists' studios.
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Struggling writers in 19th-century Paris were famous for living in cold, drafty garrets.
The old building's garrets have since been converted into trendy loft apartments.
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The romantic image of the "starving artist in a garret" comes from the historical reality that top-floor rooms were the cheapest and least desirable to rent.
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