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escritoire
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[ noun ] (writing) a desk used for writing
Synonyms Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)She turned and walked stiffly into the parlor to the dainty legged escritoire , warped and cracked now from fifty years in an atmosphere of sea_spray . He ran on his plump sticks of legs , freezing now_and_again into the sudden startled attitudes which the camera had caught and held_on the paling photographs , all carefully placed and glued and labeled , resting in the fat plush album in the bottom drawer of the escritoire . Related terms |
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