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writing table

NOUN
escritoire
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She is seated at her writing table and looks at us directly with what seems to be real human understanding.

From New York Times • May 25, 2023

The duchess also saw the dining room, where Austen's writing table remains as well as first editions of novels and two of her letters.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2022

On his writing table lay a notebook for logging his correspondence and paper cutouts with inspirational messages and haikus to slip into envelopes.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2020

He collected a few paraffin lamps and some used furniture: a Russian wrought-iron bed, a writing table, chairs like “the chairs that van Gogh painted.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

In the third, she was seated at a writing table and a maid was handing her what looked like a letter.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett