单词 | scrutoire |
释义 | scrutoiren. = escritoire n. ΘΚΠ 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. 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.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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1665 |
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