garret-window

See also: garret window

English

Noun

garret-window (plural garret-windows)

  1. Archaic form of garret window.
    • 1786, [John] Trusler, The London Adviser and Guide: Containing Every Instruction and Information Useful and Necessary to Persons Living in London, and Coming to Reside There; […], London: […] [T]he Author, […], page 149:
      Your garret-windows therefore ſhould always be ſecured, and trap-doors opening to the leads well bolted.
    • [c. 1800], J. Bisset, “Dandy Actors”, in Dandyism Displayed, or The Follies of the Ton; […], London: […] [John] Duncombe, […], →OCLC, page 8:
      If he be originally belched out of a kitchen, dropped from a garret-window, or the offspring of an harlot and twenty fathers.
    • 1837, Mrs. John Sandford [i.e., Elizabeth Sandford], “On Female Romance”, in Woman, in Her Social and Domestic Character, 5th edition, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […], page 150:
      Opposition is its nourishment, for it is her ambition to be a heroine; and though she might disdain her innamorato were he admitted to her mother’s drawing-room, she will think him irresistible as she smiles on him from a garret-window; […]
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