An archaic or variant spelling of garret; an attic room or top floor of a building.
Variant or archaic form of garret, from Old French garite (watchtower), from Frankish *wara (protection). The word originally meant a small upper room or lookout tower.
Medieval towers had garrits as lookout rooms—over time the word drifted downward to mean any attic, but it kept its sense of being a place apart, elevated and separate from ordinary rooms.
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