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escritoire

[es-kri-twahr] / ˌɛs krɪˈtwɑr /
NOUN
desk
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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

Sitting before me in a London hotel room, the 48-year-old looks so comfortable that you would think he had been installed here by the interior designers along with the coffee table and the escritoire.

From The Guardian Oct. 14, 2010

Next was proved the subsequent finding of a packet of arsenic by the Coroner, in a locked escritoire of the prisoner's, and of which the prisoner kept the keys about his person.

From Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 3 of 3) by Margracia Loudon




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