Meaning of garret-window | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of garret window.

alt-of, archaic

Examples

“Your garret-windows therefore ſhould always be ſecured, and trap-doors opening to the leads well bolted.”

“If he be originally belched out of a kitchen, dropped from a garret-window, or the offspring of an harlot and twenty fathers.”

“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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