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cockloft en · NOUN

Etymology

From cock + loft.

Meanings

1. A small attic or garret.
   • For if the lowest floors already burn, / Cocklofts and garrets soon will take the turn. 1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Juvenal”, in The Satirs of Decimus Juvenalis:
   • 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. 1716, Alexander Pope, A Further Account of the Most Deplorable Condition of Mr. Edmund Curll, Bookseller:
2. A horizontal void between a building's uppermost ceiling and its roof, with no habitable or accessible space.
   • Fires often spread through cocklofts.

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Translations (1)

bg мансарда (small attic or garret)