cockloft

cockloft

English

Etymology

cock +‎ loft?

Noun

cockloft (plural cocklofts)

1. A small attic or garret
   • 1693, John Dryden, "The Third Satire of Juvenal", 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.

Translations

small attic or garret

Bulgarian: мансарда (mansarda)