escritoire

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a writing desk, especially one with a hinged panel that opens to form the writing surface

   She kept the letters in a locked drawer of the escritoire.

Borrowed from French escritoire, an older form related to ecrire, 'to write,' plus -oire, a suffix naming tools or objects. It is a doublet of scriptorium through the same Latin writing root.

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