Definitions
(architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof
Word origin
From the practice of decorating the top storey of building facades in the Attic architectural style. From French attique, from Latin atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός (Attikós).
Used in a sentence
“We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.”
“[…] Aeschylus here, as elsewhere, made himself the legislator of all Attic tragedy.”
“, The distinction between the Attic and the Asiatic schools takes us back to antiquity. The former were regarded as concise and healthy, the latter as empty and inflated: […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Room under the roof”5 letters
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