roll-top desk
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Authorities found the handgun after an officer “asked the child where he put his toy” and the boy motioned toward a roll-top desk in the living room.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 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
He took the book over to his big roll-top desk and lit the light over it.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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