writing table
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
The duchess also saw the dining room, where Austen's writing table remains as well as first editions of novels and two of her letters.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2022
When I came back, nobody had put any furniture in but Cy, and he only put a writing table in his room with a book on it.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2017
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
Over at the writing table, Zooey, pressing down heavily with his pencil, was filling in the “o”s on the advertisement side of a small blotter.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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