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- noun Plural form of
escritoire .
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Examples
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No doubt my adult hankering after Zuber papiers peints, Omega Workshop textiles, and Andre Arbus escritoires germinated at just this moment.
Home Alone 2006
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No doubt my adult hankering after Zuber papiers peints, Omega Workshop textiles, and Andre Arbus escritoires germinated at just this moment.
Home Alone 2006
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No doubt my adult hankering after Zuber papiers peints, Omega Workshop textiles, and Andre Arbus escritoires germinated at just this moment.
Home Alone 2006
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Horrocks, of the guilty ribbons, with a wild air, trying at the presses and escritoires with a bunch of keys.
Vanity Fair 2006
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No modern data-processing or communication equipment was in evidence, but I suspected that most of the antique cabinets, presses, and escritoires furnishing the room had been gutted and stuffed with cyber-ware.
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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But the artist was not quite satisfied for later that evening when Campion was sitting in his dressing-gown writing a note at one of the small escritoires which Florence had so thoughtfully provided in her guest bedrooms, he came in again.
The Return of Mr Campion Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1989
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A drear, single man's room it was, from wall to wall, despite its fretted ceilings and official pomp of Bramah escritoires and red boxes.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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Men will watch him with a jealous eye; they will hide their papers from him, and lock up their escritoires.
Benjamin Franklin 1888
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He says, moreover, that all goods carried from the said islands are mere trifles, from which the land derives no profit -- such as porcelains, escritoires, caskets, fans, and parasols, all flimsy and very unprofitable.
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Others, moving through the great rooms with a high head, were already condemned out of their own bureaux and escritoires now being rifled by the Emperor's spies.
Barlasch of the Guard Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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