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单词 garret
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Definition of garret in English:

garret

noun ˈɡarɪtˈɡarətˈɡɛrət
  • A top-floor or attic room, especially a small dismal one.

    (尤指艺术家通常居住的狭小阴暗的)顶楼;阁楼

    the solitary genius starving in a cold garret
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The garret has become a half-acre loft with white floors.
    • Upper floors contained bedrooms for the family and garrets for servants.
    • People like to envisage artists as people in garrets struggling away with brushes in four different sizes.
    • As everyone knows, artists are supposed to live in garrets preferably in Paris, but Glasgow is okay too.
    • Sung in English, it tells the story of a group of artists living in a cold garret room in the Latin Quarter of Paris.
    • Some artists, however, aren't that keen on garrets.
    • He is not an artist who locks himself away in a garret but a practical man of the theatre who needs to know who he is writing for and, even better, who is coming to see it.
    • Why do we live along with the Bohemians in garrets if we don't have something we're passionate about?
    • I imagine my façade as an old Victorian, right on the waterfront and overlooking the twilight with many, many rooms and a little garret in which I sit overlooking everything.
    • A cold garret room in the Latin Quarter of Paris is home to four struggling young artists: Rodolfo, a poet; Marcello, a painter; Colline, a philosopher and Schaunard, a musician.
    • In fact, few painters have starved in the garrets, or have had to wait until death for recognition.
    • Hawkers were confronted on the streets, distributors challenged in their premises and pubs, and printers raided in their cellars and garrets.
    • Many of Valery's essays make reference not only to the salons and cafes on the banks of the Seine, but to other interiors like rooms and garrets of artists of the time.
    • Many of these writers' works were destined to make pots of money, but only in the century after they died in their ill-lit garrets from malnourishment.
    • There was a bit of mistral, certainly, and a scarcity of water in the summer, but no freezing garrets and plenty of artists, writers, and bon vivants.
    • The attic, or garret, was primarily for storage, not bedrooms.
    • Thus, while one version puts her to work at a loom in a factory, and has her living in a garret, another has her earning a meagre crust as a teacher in London.
    • He had no time for the romantic notion of the artist starving in a garret.
    • In modern cities, Plato's idea of banishing artists is almost achieved through economic means, with many forced to live and work in low-rent premises such as garrets, lofts, and disused warehouses.
    • Working in garrets or cellars, they exercised little control over the enterprise and used rented equipment so as to minimize capital losses if detected.
    Synonyms
    attic, loft, roof space, cock loft
    mansard, loft conversion, attic room
    informal, dated sky parlour

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'watchtower'): from Old French garite, from garir (see garrison).

  • ‘Watchtower’ was the first meaning recorded for garret. It comes from Old French garite, which (like ME garrison) is from garir ‘to defend, provide’. The word's use for a room on the top floor of a house arose early in its history, in the late 15th century.

Rhymes

carat, carrot, claret, karat, parrot

Definition of garret in US English:

garret

nounˈɡerətˈɡɛrət
  • A top-floor or attic room, especially a small dismal one (traditionally inhabited by an artist)

    (尤指艺术家通常居住的狭小阴暗的)顶楼;阁楼

    the solitary genius starving in a cold garret
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I imagine my façade as an old Victorian, right on the waterfront and overlooking the twilight with many, many rooms and a little garret in which I sit overlooking everything.
    • As everyone knows, artists are supposed to live in garrets preferably in Paris, but Glasgow is okay too.
    • Many of Valery's essays make reference not only to the salons and cafes on the banks of the Seine, but to other interiors like rooms and garrets of artists of the time.
    • Sung in English, it tells the story of a group of artists living in a cold garret room in the Latin Quarter of Paris.
    • In fact, few painters have starved in the garrets, or have had to wait until death for recognition.
    • In modern cities, Plato's idea of banishing artists is almost achieved through economic means, with many forced to live and work in low-rent premises such as garrets, lofts, and disused warehouses.
    • Why do we live along with the Bohemians in garrets if we don't have something we're passionate about?
    • Some artists, however, aren't that keen on garrets.
    • Upper floors contained bedrooms for the family and garrets for servants.
    • The attic, or garret, was primarily for storage, not bedrooms.
    • Many of these writers' works were destined to make pots of money, but only in the century after they died in their ill-lit garrets from malnourishment.
    • There was a bit of mistral, certainly, and a scarcity of water in the summer, but no freezing garrets and plenty of artists, writers, and bon vivants.
    • Working in garrets or cellars, they exercised little control over the enterprise and used rented equipment so as to minimize capital losses if detected.
    • People like to envisage artists as people in garrets struggling away with brushes in four different sizes.
    • The garret has become a half-acre loft with white floors.
    • He is not an artist who locks himself away in a garret but a practical man of the theatre who needs to know who he is writing for and, even better, who is coming to see it.
    • He had no time for the romantic notion of the artist starving in a garret.
    • A cold garret room in the Latin Quarter of Paris is home to four struggling young artists: Rodolfo, a poet; Marcello, a painter; Colline, a philosopher and Schaunard, a musician.
    • Thus, while one version puts her to work at a loom in a factory, and has her living in a garret, another has her earning a meagre crust as a teacher in London.
    • Hawkers were confronted on the streets, distributors challenged in their premises and pubs, and printers raided in their cellars and garrets.
    Synonyms
    attic, loft, roof space, cock loft

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘watchtower’): from Old French garite, from garir (see garrison).

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