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
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
Craig's next move was to ransack the little escritoire in the corner of the studio room itself.
From The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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