lecturn
Example Sentences
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After arriving in Downing Street on Monday, Burnham delivered a speech without notes and without the traditional lecturn, symbolising the more relaxed image he cultivated over nine years as Manchester mayor.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
I do not see that lecturn can possibly signifie any thing but a reading-desk, in which sense it is used by Chaucer.
From The Rowley Poems by Thomas Chatterton
On the right of this, in the immediate fore-ground, is a lecturn, upon which rests a book and a lady's 'kerchief.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
