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单词 scrutoire
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scrutoiren.

/skruːˈtwɑː//skruːˈtɔː/
Forms: α. 1600s–1700s scritoire, scritore, 1600s 'scritore, 1700s scrittoir. β. 1600s–1800s scrutoir(e, -ore, 1700s 'scrutore, scrutor, screutore, scruitore.
Etymology: Aphetic < French escritoire: see escritoire n., which appears later in our quots. The change < i into u in scrutoire, escrutoire (18th cent.) is unexplained.
= escritoire n.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > writing desk
writing desk1598
writing tablea1613
scritory1616
scrutoire1665
scriptor1666
bureau1698
escritoire1707
secretaire1771
secretary1803
bonheur du jour1820
table desk1820
bureau plat1887
α.
1678 Trial of Coleman 41 bis Then I came to his own Study where his 'Scritore was.
1683 J. Oldham Poems & Transl. 198 One gives a fine Scritore, or Cabinet.
1715 R. Nelson Addr. Persons of Quality p. xi He searched his Scrittoir for something further to give me.
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity Pref., in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) I had locked up these Papers in my Scritoire.
1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 372 Bank-stock, or India-bonds..are not idle, even when in his scritoire.
β. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 44 There they sell..Scrutores or Cabinets of Mother of Pearl.1698 in MSS House of Lords (1905) III. 345 He had several trunks and a scrutoir in the ship.1750 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 22 Dec. A person who had stolen sixty guineas out of his scrutoire.1823 T. De Quincey tr. ‘F. Laun’ Dice in London Mag. Aug. 117/1 There was still preserved in the house a scrutoire fixed in the wall.a1844 F. Howes Horace's Sat. i. i. (end) But hold!—You'll think I've pillaged the scrutoir Of blear Crispinus.1853 J. G. M. Ramsey Ann. Tennessee 132 These issues of the North-Carolina Treasury..are still found in great abundance in the scrutoires and chests of the old families.1978 W. 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.attributive.1737 E. Hoppus Salmon's Country Builder's Estimator (ed. 2) 110 Cabinet Locks..and Scruitore Locks.
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