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scrutoire|skruːˈtɔə(r), -ˈtwɑː(r)|
Forms: α. 7–8 scritoire, -ore, 7 'scritore, 8 scrittoir. β. 7–9 scrutoir(e, -ore, 8 'scrutore, scrutor, screutore, scruitore.
[Aphetic ad. F. escritoire: see escritoire, which appears later in our quots. The change from i into u in scrutoire, escrutoire (18th c.) is unexplained.]
= escritoire.
α1678Trial of Coleman 41 bis, Then I came to his own Study where his 'Scritore was. 1682Oldham Imit. 3rd Sat. Juv. Poems & Transl. (1684) 198 One gives a fine Scritore or Cabinet. 1715Nelson Addr. Pers. Qual. p. xi, He searched his Scrittoir for something further to give me. 1718Prior Solomon Pref. ⁋14, I had locked up these Papers in my Scritoire. 1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 372 Bank-stock, or India-bonds..are not idle, even when in his scritoire.
β1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 44 There they sell..Scrutores or Cabinets of Mother of Pearl. 1698in MSS. Ho. Lords N.S. (1905) III. 345 He had several trunks and a scrutoir in the ship. 1750H. Walpole Let. to Mann 22 Dec., A person who had stolen sixty guineas out of his scrutoire. 1823De Quincey Dice Wks. 1859 XI. 293 There was still preserved in the house a scrutoire fixed in the wall. a1844F. Howes Horace, Sat. i. i. (end), But hold!—You'll think I've pillaged the scrutoir Of blear Crispinus. 1853J. G. M. Ramsey Annals of Tennessee 132 These issues of the North-Carolina Treasury..are still found in great abundance in the scrutoires and chests of the old families. 1978W. M. Spackman Armful of Warm Girl 33 And he himself unpacked..a manila folder of assorted private relics, which he stowed one by one in the upstairs scrutoire.
attrib.1737Hoppus Salmon's Country Build. Estim. (ed. 2) 110 Cabinet Locks..and Scruitore Locks. |