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
He held this little packet between finger and thumb for a moment, regarding it, and then put down the escritoire and broke the seal....
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.