escritoire
Example Sentences
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They pled with the few who still loaded sideboards and escritoires into tenders.
From Literature
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
It’s such a good system that I ended up producing escritoires with a friend who has a furniture factory called SwitzerCultCreative.
From New York Times
The script reveals a fascination with the Oxford dictionary definition of the word "escritoire", as you might expect from two ambitious autodidacts.
From The Guardian
The day after the funeral, had been appointed for the perusal of the will, which was, my mother said, with other papers of consequence, in a private drawer of my father's escritoire.
From Project Gutenberg
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