DHHTBBa space or room just below the roof of a house, often used for storing things 阁楼,顶楼
a small attic room
一间小阁楼
Examples from the Corpus
attic• Pamela Wray's father found her body hanging from an atticbeam.• All these hazards, winter and summer, are the reasons an attic should be well ventilated.• I wish I had a cosmic panopticon and could see into every Paris cellar and every attic in the banlieue.• What had gone from the attic she could only guess, for she did not remember half the things they stored there.• Indeed, he was nervous when I was out of the attic.• He lived in the top attic right, up against the east end gable of the building.• That considered, an unvented attic can be 10 to 20 degreeswarmer than outside in winter.
(1700-1800)Frenchattique, from attique“of ancient Athens”, from LatinAtticus; from the use of an ancient Greek style in designing structures around the top of buildings