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escritoire

noun as in desk

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At one side of the room stood an escritoire, and from a lower drawer therein he took out a small box tightly nailed down.

He kept them in an escritoire he had brought from Spain, but there were always a few of them lying about in his sitting-room.

Oliver found him seated at his escritoire, with books and papers spread out before him.

He tore open the escritoire, and feeling blindly within it, found the key of the chest.

There are correspondences within this escritoire, worth all the wisdom of all the ministers of earth.

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

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