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Desk

A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

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Davenport 76% connected

A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.

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Escritoire 76% connected

A piece of furniture used as a writing table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the like; a secretary or writing desk.

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Secretary 76% connected

One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.

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Table 76% connected

A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.

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Drawer 70% connected

One who, or that which, draws

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