garret
Sign in to savethumb|''The Garreteer's Petition by Turner, 1809 thumb|Carl Spitzweg, [[The Poor Poet'' (), 1839, depicting a garret room]] right|thumb|Place Saint-Georges in Paris, showing top-floor garret windows 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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thumb|''The Garreteer's Petition by Turner, 1809 thumb|Carl Spitzweg, [[The Poor Poet'' (), 1839, depicting a garret room]] right|thumb|Place Saint-Georges in Paris, showing top-floor garret windows 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.
== Etymology == The word entered Middle English through Old French with a military connotation of watchtower, garrison or billet a place for guards or soldiers to be quartered in a house. Like garrison, it comes from an Old French word of ultimately Germanic origin meaning "to provide" or "defend".