cockloft
English
Noun
cockloft (plural cocklofts)
- A small attic or garret
- 1693, John Dryden, "The Third Satire of Juvenal", The Satirs of Decimus Juvenalis.
- For if the lowest floors already burn, / Cocklofts and garrets soon will take the turn.
- 1716, Alexander Pope, A Further Account of the Most Deplorable Condition of Mr. Edmund Curll, Bookseller.
- All theſe gentlemen appeared at the hour appointed in Mr. Curll's dining-room, two excepted ; one of whom was the gentleman in the cockloft, his landlady being out of the way, and the gradus ad parnaſſum taken down; the other happened to be too cloſely watched by the bailiffs.
- 1693, John Dryden, "The Third Satire of Juvenal", The Satirs of Decimus Juvenalis.
Translations
small attic or garret
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