garret
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In central Paris, a thousand vulnerable people living in top-floor, garret apartments died because the city’s famous heat-absorbing zinc roofs turned their uninsulated homes into ovens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
In May 1976, Rybakov’s close friend, dissident artist Yevgeny Rukhin, died in a fire in his garret studio in St. Petersburg, where he was meeting with friends.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022
A triangle conjures up the narrow garret in which Harriet Jacobs, the author of “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” hid for seven years to avoid capture.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
The romantic image of the writer in the garret doesn't do justice to the tedious reality of churning out words, one after another.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022
He’s risen from his kneeling position; we’re squaring off against each other in his small garret room.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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