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Attic

noun

Floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage. Synonyms: garret, loft.

The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia. Synonyms: Classical Greek, Ionic, Ionic dialect.

Informal terms for a human head. Synonyms: bean, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle.

(architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof.

adjective

Of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times.

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"Attic" Quotes from Famous Books

... as you say, Missus. But dese farmer people don't stand on fussin'. You'se can ask her right out if she wants to sell any old thing she's got in the attic or cellar." ...

— Polly's Business Venture • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... pathetic doll's house. Women's garments still hung on pegs. A cottage piano lurched forward drunkenly on three legs, with the keyboard ripped open, the treble notes on the ground, the bass incongruously in the air. In the attic, ironically secure, hung a cheap German print of blowsy children feeding a pig. The wide flagstoned street smelt sour. At various cavern doors sat groups of the billeted soldiers. Now and then squads marched up and down, monotonously clad in khaki and dun-coloured helmets. Officers, ...

— The Rough Road • William John Locke

... favourite science was the mathematical, Her noblest virtue was her magnanimity, Her wit (she sometimes tried at wit) was Attic all, Her serious sayings darkened to sublimity;[a] In short, in all things she was fairly what I call A prodigy—her morning dress was dimity, Her evening silk, or, in the summer, muslin, And other stuffs, with which I ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron

... something to us that we should like to know"; and Sir Joseph and the Captain step behind a convenient coil of rope while Josephine walks about in agitation and sings to herself how reckless she is to leave her luxurious home with her father, for an attic that, likely as not, will ...

— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

... given a bed in the attic, with the six younger Chitlings, and two days later, when my father tracked me to my hiding-place, I hid under the dark staircase in the hall, and heard my protector deliver an eloquent invective on the subject of stepmothers. It was the ...

— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow

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