Garret
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A garret is generally synonymous in modern usage with a habitable attic or small (and possibly dismal or cramped) living space at the top of a house. It entered Middle English via Old French with a military connotation of a watchtower or something akin to a garrison, in other words a place for guards or soldiers to be quartered in a house. Like garrison it comes from an Old French word garir of ultimately Germanic origin meaning to provide or defend.[1]
[edit] See also
- Garratt, a type of steam locomotive
- Garet (disambiguation (person))
- Garett (disambiguation (person))
- Garrett (disambiguation)
- Garrett (name) - given name & surname
[edit] References
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of English, Second Edition, Revised, Oxford University Press, 2009
