writing table
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“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
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
Students come to the writing table with different skills; second-grade teacher Jennifer Grevera at Hanover Area’s Lee Park said she’s seen some correlation with family size and a child’s place in the sibling age range.
From Washington Times • Jan. 28, 2017
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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