attic

Definition

The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

Etymology

From the practice of decorating the top storey of building facades in the Attic architectural style. From French attique, from Latin atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός (Attikós).

Example Sentences

• "We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes."
• "In my Wonderland, I'm back on my Alice Back in my palace, I'm fly like Aladdin Serving my fans all my dope, 'cause they addicts Haters mad 'cause I'm on top like an attic And if it's beef then we're shooting sporadic Game is like Disney, my words are like magic"
• "[…] was a diminutive, forked-radish sort of a young man, very fashionably attired, or, as he would say, kiddily togg'd; and, though it was scarcely noon, he was rather queer in the attic; that is to say, not exactly sober."

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