Garret
noun
A small, often uncomfortable room or living space, usually at the top of a building, under the roof.
He lived in a tiny garret at the top of the old house.
Often appears as...
- live in a garret
- climb to the garret
noun
A small, often uncomfortable room or living space, usually at the top of a building, under the roof.
He lived in a tiny garret at the top of the old house.
Often appears as...
- live in a garret
- climb to the garret
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Pro Tip 1/3Historical use
Garrets were traditionally associated with artists or writers as affordable housing in older cities.
The novelist wrote her first book in a Parisian garret.
Pro Tip 2/3Small and simple
Garrets are basic, small, and sometimes poorly lit or ventilated, a step above uninhabitable.
He could only afford the garret, which barely had room for a bed.
Pro Tip 3/3Romanticized poverty
The word can evoke romantic notions of struggling artists or students despite being a humble space.
The movie depicted a young poet's life in a quaint garret.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical use
Garrets were traditionally associated with artists or writers as affordable housing in older cities.
The novelist wrote her first book in a Parisian garret.
Pro Tip 2/3Small and simple
Garrets are basic, small, and sometimes poorly lit or ventilated, a step above uninhabitable.
He could only afford the garret, which barely had room for a bed.
Pro Tip 3/3Romanticized poverty
The word can evoke romantic notions of struggling artists or students despite being a humble space.
The movie depicted a young poet's life in a quaint garret.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical use
Garrets were traditionally associated with artists or writers as affordable housing in older cities.
The novelist wrote her first book in a Parisian garret.
Pro Tip 2/3Small and simple
Garrets are basic, small, and sometimes poorly lit or ventilated, a step above uninhabitable.
He could only afford the garret, which barely had room for a bed.
Pro Tip 3/3Romanticized poverty
The word can evoke romantic notions of struggling artists or students despite being a humble space.
The movie depicted a young poet's life in a quaint garret.
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Safari Live - Day 234 PIPE...
art and skill that comes with tracking is exceptional and so it's all about that experience so if we were to just jump on the GPS and be able to go yeah cool that's very tiny year's get a little bit boring don't you think you literally just be driving to a garret and actually no it's not a guaranteed
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Brian Goldman: Doctors...
And that was the message that I absorbed when I was in med school. I was an obsessive compulsive student. In high school, a classmate once said that Brian Goldman would study for a blood test. And so I did. And I studied in my little garret
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 234 PIPE...
art and skill that comes with tracking is exceptional and so it's all about that experience so if we were to just jump on the GPS and be able to go yeah cool that's very tiny year's get a little bit boring don't you think you literally just be driving to a garret and actually no it's not a guaranteed
Video examples
Brian Goldman: Doctors...
And that was the message that I absorbed when I was in med school. I was an obsessive compulsive student. In high school, a classmate once said that Brian Goldman would study for a blood test. And so I did. And I studied in my little garret
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Quote examples
Leigh Bardugo
Israeli Author
I want to be really clear about something: I think we kind of fetishize the creative life. We have the vision of what it means to be an author, where you sit in your garret or looking out at your view and you give everything to your art and you commit fully to it. But the reality is that most of us have bills to pay.
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Sarah Rees Brennan
Irish Writer
Whether you're starving in a garret or living in a castle like J. K. Rowling, I had this image of the author as a flawless, composed individual, serene in the knowledge they were creating art.
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Edith Wharton
American Author
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
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Mary Kay Andrews
American Writer
I wanted a garret hideaway to write in like Jo March in 'Little Women.
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Samuel Foote
English Dramatist
Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
Quote examples
Leigh Bardugo
Israeli Author
I want to be really clear about something: I think we kind of fetishize the creative life. We have the vision of what it means to be an author, where you sit in your garret or looking out at your view and you give everything to your art and you commit fully to it. But the reality is that most of us have bills to pay.
Quote examples
Sarah Rees Brennan
Irish Writer
Whether you're starving in a garret or living in a castle like J. K. Rowling, I had this image of the author as a flawless, composed individual, serene in the knowledge they were creating art.
Quote examples
Edith Wharton
American Author
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
Quote examples
Mary Kay Andrews
American Writer
I wanted a garret hideaway to write in like Jo March in 'Little Women.
Quote examples
Samuel Foote
English Dramatist
Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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