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escritoire

[ es-kri-twahr ]

escritoire

/ ˌɛɪˈٷɑː /

noun

  1. a writing desk with compartments and drawers, concealed by a hinged flap, on a chest of drawers or plain stand
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of escritoire1

1605–15; < French, Middle French < Latin īōܳ. See scribe 1, -tory 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of escritoire1

C18: from French, from Medieval Latin ōܳ writing room in a monastery, from Latin ī to write
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They pled with the few who still loaded sideboards and escritoires into tenders.

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I write on an outsize table, not a neat escritoire — as if I might be cutting film or pasting up collages.

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It’s such a good system that I ended up producing escritoires with a friend who has a furniture factory called SwitzerCultCreative.

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The script reveals a fascination with the Oxford dictionary definition of the word "escritoire", as you might expect from two ambitious autodidacts.

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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.

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