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English
Etymology
From cock + loft.
Noun
cockloft (plural cocklofts)
- A small attic or garret.
1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Juvenal”, in 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.
- 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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