Writing-desk

Quick meaning: Writing-desk is a noun meaning Dated form of writing desk.

Meaning

Dated form of writing desk.

Example Sentences

AS ſoon as he was alone, the huſband broke open her writing-deſk; […]

The bombé writing-desk had brass inlay and a marble top, a Bartlett print of Lord Byron’s Childe Harold hung above the pristine twin beds.

It was eight o’clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.

Beneath this poplar Mademoiselle Sophia now reposes, and the remembrancer which she left me, the book in red morocco and gilt-edge, “Heinrich von Ofterdingen” by Novalis, now lies before me on my writing-desk, and serves me in the compilation of this notice.

Word Forms

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