Attic
An upper room or story in a building, mainly in a barn, directly under the roof, used either for storage (as in most private houses), for a specific purpose, e.g. an "organ loft" in a church, or to sleep in (sleeping loft). In this sense it is roughly synonymous with attic, the major difference being that an attic typically constitutes an entire floor of the building, while a loft covers only a few rooms, leaving one or more sides open to the lower floor. In barns a hayloft is often larger than the ground floor as it would contain a year's worth of hay.
An attic loft can often be converted to form functional living accommodation (see loft conversion).
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Famous quotes containing the word attic:
“She always had to burn a light
Beside her attic bed at night.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“It was all smoke, and no salt, Attic or other.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“But comst a decent maid,
In Attic robe arrayd,
O chaste, unboastful nymph, to thee I call!”
—William Collins (17211759)