| 单词 | bureau top |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbureau top a. General attributive and appositive, as bureau-bookcase, bureau top, etc. ΚΠ 1749 Gen. Advertiser 11 July Chests of Drawers, Bureau Tables. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xxi. 199 The bureau top was consecrated to Bibles and Hymn Books. 1867 A. D. Whitney Leslie Goldthwaite i. 8 Some other and unexplained doubt..kept her standing there with her hand upon the bureau-knob. 1915 F. W. Burgess Antique Furniture xxii. 317 There is..a distinction..between bureau-desks and secretaires over desks with drawers. 1993 Antique Dealer Aug. 26/3 Carcase pieces made in two parts—especially bureau-bookcases and secretaires—frequently rouse suspicions in the minds of committee members. 2000 T. Greenwood Nearer than Sky (2001) ii. 94 I pictured her dragging the furniture, too heavy to lift, never minding the scraping of bureau legs on the wooden floor. < as lemmas |
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