Word info

garret window

Noun

Meaning

garret window (plural garret windows)

(architecture) A skylight that lies along the slope of the roof.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

garret-window

Examples

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. H. P. Lovecraft

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