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 guests are greeted by name by a concierge at a Queen Anne escritoire.
From Time Magazine Archive
She rose abruptly, went to her escritoire, and unlocking a little drawer, took out a small parcel wrapped in silver paper.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
