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escritoire

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˌɛskɹiˈtwɑː/Part of speech nounSorted ceeiiorrstStarts with EEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a desk used for writing

Word origin

From French escritoire, from escrire (“to write”) (obsolete forms of écritoire and écrire, respectively) + -oire (“a tool or object”). Doublet of scriptorium.

Used in a sentence

  • To surprise him, by finding on his table the books he liked, or the escritoire he had occasion for, gave Louisa the most delightful moments life had hitherto afforded her;...
  • Rosemary sat at her Public Works Department escritoire, in a sea of fed cats, and tried to write a letter to Vythilingam.

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