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
“I live a mad, abandoned life, draped in a shawl and going from garret to garret.”
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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