Suggested by ... Meg and Ginkgofita

1. Attic, left or last quarter of the house, tile commonly vain.
housetop, from the Arabic Hispanic fassamí SAQF , fragile roof, literally "roof heaven," and called an attic or attic-room at the top of the house usually used as storage room ...- old objects
regard our word for today, our custody Meg us back to the old Madrid, (1861), designed by English Ramón Mesonero Romanos (1803-1882, a prominent writer manners, especially of people, places and environments of Madrid):
"... and the inner life of people should be so modest and little desirous of amenities that can be satisfied with anything, with a stinking portal, a dark, steep stairs and narrow half-dozen rooms naked, crowned by a housetop mean, all this formed and multiplied in the small space that tolerated the monasteries (in Madrid, as in most cities of the kingdom, constituted the main part of the population), and even that tolerance for the neighborhood was more often than not limited in the height of the borders and adjacent houses, in the number of windows in their outputs and communications, which were not to deprive of light, ventilation and independence to the large monasteries of both sexes did not register their spacious gardens, or prevent its spread and lonely fences could master deserted streets, and its lofty towers rise up to the sky with needles and pinnacles ... "
Until next post!
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