roll-top desk
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The child then walked to a roll-top desk in the living room and motioned toward it.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2023
Hildy has hidden Earl in a roll-top desk; its false back allows the curled-up Magaro to stretch out backstage.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2017
In other words, she picked up a roll-top desk and a three-seated couch.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2016
She wrote thousands, at a roll-top desk that had once belonged to J. R. R. Tolkien, answering anyone who wrote to her.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2016
Then our beds and my father’s roll-top desk.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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