writing table
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Commemorating the 250th anniversary of her birth, the statue will feature the literary giant standing by her writing table.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024
“Now you have to make a discovery and add something,” said de Quénetain, who was showing a writing table newly recognized as having belonged to Marie Antoinette, priced at €1.7 million.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023
Under A.C.’s guidance, that modest storefront expanded to include an upstairs reading room housing deluxe editions, a fireplace, a writing table and comfortable chairs in which customers were encouraged to linger, study or converse.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022
He collected a few paraffin lamps and some used furniture: a Russian wrought-iron bed, a writing table, chairs like “the chairs that van Gogh painted.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016
In the third, she was seated at a writing table and a maid was handing her what looked like a letter.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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