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writing table

NOUN
escritoire
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Commemorating the 250th anniversary of her birth, the statue will feature the literary giant standing by her writing table.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024

“Now you have to make a discovery and add something,” said de Quénetain, who was showing a writing table newly recognized as having belonged to Marie Antoinette, priced at €1.7 million.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023

Under A.C.’s guidance, that modest storefront expanded to include an upstairs reading room housing deluxe editions, a fireplace, a writing table and comfortable chairs in which customers were encouraged to linger, study or converse.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022

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

Beyond him Winston could see the writing table with its green-shaded lamp and the speakwrite and the wire baskets deep-laden with papers.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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