What is "attics"

Usage examples of "attics".

It was because, she said, their houses being single-storied and situated on still lower ground than the house were always flooded when the river rose, and so at such times, they would make for the house, and in the upstairs rooms and the attics they would be safe until the waters subsided.

It was then not anywhere near its present size, the thirty-foot-long stone- flagged hall being the main living-room, with a room at the back and a kitchen to the side and three bedrooms on the first floor, with small attics above.

This consisted of four large attics, two of which were crammed with oddments of furniture.

Well, it was a good job there were attics up above, although from what he remembered of them when he attended on Dilly they were of no height, and the small windows were set on the floor.