MEANING
A writing desk fitted with drawers or compartments.
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- antique escritoire
- escritoire drawer
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The letter lay inside the escritoire.
A secret drawer opened in the antique escritoire.
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Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular escritoire; plural escritoires. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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