cockloft
Americannoun
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a small loft or attic above the highest finished ceiling of a building.
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a completely enclosed space between rafters and a suspended ceiling.
noun
Etymology
Origin of cockloft
Example Sentences
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This little cockloft does not fill the whole of this upper story.
From The Light That Lures by Brebner, Percy James
Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.—Fuller:
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John
Turn to the poor: their megrims are as strange; Bath, cockloft, barber, eating-house, they change; They hire a boat; your born aristocrat Is not more squeamish, tossing in his yacht.
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John
Ah, well! there are piles of dusty memories in the old cockloft still untouched, but I shall rummage no more to-night.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various
The alley hugged itself in the joyful sensation that it had a miser and his hoard in the cockloft.
From The Battle with the Slum by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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