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slant-top

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[slant-top, slahnt-] / ˈslæntˌtɒp, ˈslɑnt- /

adjective

  1. (especially of a desk) having a slant front.


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When amidst such adventuring a kid gets lost, he is sent to the Johnson's Creek School, where he has to sit at a slant-top desk until his parents reclaim him.

From Time Magazine Archive

But once in his office, seated at his 18th Century slant-top desk, Whitney Griswold proved he knows how to govern.

From Time Magazine Archive

An old mahogany slant-top escritoire, in the corner by the window, caught his eye.

From In Her Own Right by Clarence F. Underwood

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