attic
The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
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40+ year old toys in dust proof bags in the attic.
Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) 460–440 BCE Greek, Attic https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/728930
When my baby sister was born ‘she’ gave me a plastic Tommy gun as a kind of consolation present. I loved it. When her boys were toddlers, I bought them toy guns to return the favour. She put them straight in the atti…
Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Band or lip cup (drinking cup) Greek, Attic third quarter of the 6th century BCE https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/753194
hobi was in the sofa cuz they couldnt show that he crawled into namjoon's attic bed that night 🤓☝🏻
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The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.
“... or the bit where the octogenarian makes the first claim on the policy they've paid premiums on for forty-seven years, and Aviva accuse them of criminal fraud because they didn't count a (literal) attic boxroom as a bedroom...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“When you do everything right, but it still goes wrong. Really good expert analysis of the explosion. I see gable vents, but that may only be for the attic space.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I stumbled across Bardcore a couple of years back. It's definitely entertaining. I really enjoy the ones translated into, say, Attic Greek or Classical Latin.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“lol, another recently shingled roof in the same neighbourhood being redone, they've removed a sheet of roof sheathing and you can see guys occasionally emerging from the attic carrying filled plastic bags. Gotta be the same previous crew, same disposal 'trick'”
— Bluesky· May 2026“People talked about transformers, so i showed some of mine. You can see three boxes on the shelves and there is like 5 more in the attic. I have a huge collection, and all have a complete bio in a shared universe. I just love writing those bio... I'm quite the transformer nerd.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(slang) A person's head or brain.
“40+ year old toys in dust proof bags in the attic.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) 460–440 BCE Greek, Attic https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/728930”
— Bluesky· May 2026“When my baby sister was born ‘she’ gave me a plastic Tommy gun as a kind of consolation present. I loved it. When her boys were toddlers, I bought them toy guns to return the favour. She put them straight in the attic. (The guns, not my nephews, obviously.) O tempora, O mores!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Band or lip cup (drinking cup) Greek, Attic third quarter of the 6th century BCE https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/753194”
— Bluesky· May 2026“hobi was in the sofa cuz they couldnt show that he crawled into namjoon's attic bed that night 🤓☝🏻”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(architecture) A storey or a parapet above the cornice of a classical façade, often decorated.
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