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

I backed to the escritoire and repeated the charge.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)