lecturn

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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

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 Chatterton, Thomas