Plural of garage; buildings or spaces used for storing vehicles or as workshops.
From French 'garage' meaning 'shelter' or 'covering', derived from 'garer' meaning 'to shelter' or 'to dock'. Entered English in the early 1900s with the rise of automobiles.
The word garage perfectly captures the evolution of transportation - it went from meaning any kind of shelter to specifically meaning a car shelter within just a few decades of the automobile's invention. Interestingly, the British pronunciation emphasizes the first syllable while Americans stress the second.
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