MEANING
A writing cabinet or desk with an enclosed writing surface and storage compartments.
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- antique secretaire
- secretaire drawer
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She lowered the secretaire’s writing flap.
A key rested in the secretaire drawer.
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Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular secretaire; plural secretaires. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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