garret window

British  

noun

1. a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof

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Example Sentences

I recognized then, by the faint glimmer from a little garret window, the wrinkled face of the burgomaster's widow.

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But the second trial, later in the day, told of nearer approach of the change, and an hour or two after that, when Merran's anxiety and in a sense, too, her curiosity lured her again to her garret window, the parasol was as if glued together, while the umbrella flew open in her hands, like a bird eager for flight.

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From garret window to garret window across the narrow lanes of the old town it had been whispered at dead of night; at convent grilles, and in the timber-yards beside the river.

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This pay day he dropped from the garret window, leaving an old empty trunk.

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Tommy Rooney’s capture explained some of the mysterious happenings about the old Corner House, but he could not satisfy Ruth regarding the figure she had seen appear at the garret window.

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