LOFT, n.
1. Properly, an elevation hence, in a building, the elevation of one story or floor above another hence, a floor above another as the second loft third loft fourth loft. Spenser seems to have used the word for the highest floor or top, and this may have been its original signification.
2. A high room or place.
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