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garret window

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Through the small garret window she could see Rebecca moving in her room, preparing to go out.

From Tess of the Storm Country by Grace Miller White

And then, turning out the light with a quick, nervous gesture, he got up and went over to the long, low, garret window.

From Love and hatred by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Up he flew against an old board under a garret window and fell into a little crevice which was almost filled with moss and soft earth.

From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Then, why should she have been so frightened by the fluttering figure seen—for only half a minute, or so—in the garret window of the old Corner House?

From The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did by Grace Brooks Hill

It was rather fortunate that Ralph Birdsall had shot way his last cartridge in killing the fox three nights before from the garret window of Red Deer Lodge.

From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Grace Brooks Hill

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