secretaire
See also: secrétaire
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secretaire (plural secretaires)
- A kind of writing desk.
- [1884], [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “‘The Breaker has come up before Them’”, in Ishmael: […], volume I, London: John and Robert Maxwell, […], →OCLC, page 289:
- The table was covered with a confusion of papers, books, pamphlets, all heaped upon one another pell-mell; and an open secretaire against the wall, was chokeful of the same litter; manuscripts, books in yellow-paper covers, books in smart bindings, books in shabby bindings, stuffed in anyhow, one on the top of the other, sideways, longways, endways; a row of pigeon-holes gorged with papers in the background.
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From French secrétaire.
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secretaire m (plural secretaires, diminutive secretairetje n)
- a writing desk or more precisely a secretary desk