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Garret
Small attic used as apartment / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about a habitable attic. For people named Garret, see Garret (given name).
Not to be confused with Garratt locomotive.
A garret is a habitable attic, a living space at the top of a house or larger residential building, traditionally small with sloping ceilings. In the days before elevators this was the least prestigious position in a building, at the very top of the stairs.
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