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escritoire

noun as in desk

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They pled with the few who still loaded sideboards and escritoires into tenders.

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I write on an outsize table, not a neat escritoire — as if I might be cutting film or pasting up collages.

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It’s such a good system that I ended up producing escritoires with a friend who has a furniture factory called SwitzerCultCreative.

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The script reveals a fascination with the Oxford dictionary definition of the word "escritoire", as you might expect from two ambitious autodidacts.

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The day after the funeral, had been appointed for the perusal of the will,  which was, my mother said, with other papers of consequence, in a private drawer of my father's escritoire.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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