escritoire
Example Sentences
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To the overbearing interior décor dictator in your life—he barges into your home, rearranges your escritoire, and fiddles with your tablescapes—give Hitler at Home, a new coffee-table book by Despina Stratigakos.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2015
I write on an outsize table, not a neat escritoire — as if I might be cutting film or pasting up collages.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2015
I write on an escritoire I found on Craigslist.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2014
The script reveals a fascination with the Oxford dictionary definition of the word "escritoire", as you might expect from two ambitious autodidacts.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2012
"I remember, too," he said, with dull regret, "she used to tell me 'the whole history of a family is locked up in that escritoire.'"
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
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