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the room you climb into to forget what you stored there.
means The attics are the spaces directly beneath a roof, used for storage or as cramped rooms, one per house unless you count the plural loosely.
from From 'attic,' which traces back to Attica, the region around Athens. In classical architecture, an 'Attic order' described a low decorative storey set above a building's main cornice — a style the Athenians favored. That upper, shorter level lent its name to the cramped top floor of a house, and so the grandeur of Greece quietly came to mean the place where you keep old boxes.
- temperature
- can hit 150°F in summer sun
- hidden finds
- lost masterpieces and cash turn up regularly
- etymology
- named for Attica, Greece's decorative top story
- horror staple
- the genre's favorite source of footsteps
- wildlife
- squirrels and bats consider it prime real estate
anne frank's attic — hidden annex in amsterdam where she wrote her diary during wwii, 1942-1944
roald dahl's attic — writing room in his great missenden cottage where he wrote charlie and the chocolate factory and other novels