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Definition of Cockloft
1. Noun. A small loft or garret.
Definition of Cockloft
1. n. An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building.
Definition of Cockloft
1. Noun. A small attic or garret ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cockloft
1. a small attic [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockloft
Literary usage of Cockloft
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"THE cockloft HUMORS. Sitting late the other evening in my elbow- chair, indulging
in that kind of indolent meditation, which I consider the perfection of ..."
2. Irvingiana: A Memorial of Washington Irving by Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1860)
"Jesse Merwin, Esq. "cockloft HALL. ... The cockloft summer- house and the fish-pond
mentioned by Irving * From the Keening Post, Deo. ..."
3. The Memorial History of the City of New-York: From Its First Settlement to by James Grant Wilson (1893)
"Kemble, in a note to the Editor dated February, 1872, says: '' The old place near
Newark, in New Jersey, christened 'cockloft Hall' by Mr. Irving, ..."
4. The Beauties of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1835)
"This was enough to set the body politic going; Mrs. cockloft began "my dearing"
... Mrs. cockloft thereupon turned up her eyes, and the young ladies their ..."
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