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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡæɹɪt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɡæɹɪt/, /ˈɡɛɹɪt/
• 韻: -æɹɪt

名詞

garret (plural garrets)

1. An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
   • 1660 January 11 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 1st, 1659–1660 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1866, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by Constance Garnett), Crime and Punishment‎, Part I, Chapter I:

     On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

   • 1895, George MacDonald, Lilith:

     I was in the main garret, with huge beams and rafters over my head, great spaces around me, a door here and there in sight, and long vistas whose gloom was thinned by a few lurking cobwebbed windows and small dusky skylights.

   • 2011 February 22, Daniel J. Wakin, “Free Trove of Music Scores on Web Hits Sensitive Copyright Note”, in New York Times‎:

     While a boon to garret-living, financially struggling young musicians, the library has caught the attention of music publishers.

派生語

Further reading

• garret on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Trager, garter, grater