writing desk

noun

Updated on: 17 Mar 2018

Definition of writing desk

: a desk that often has a sloping top for writing on; also : a portable case that contains writing materials and has a surface for writing

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Recent Examples of writing desk from the Web

European-style fall-front cabinets – small writing desks that folded up into a portable box, the 16th-century version of a briefcase – became popular in Japan and elsewhere in the world.

— susan dunne, courant.com, "'Japan's Global Baroque' At Yale University Art Gallery," 7 Mar. 2018
Other furnishings are equally swish: mock-croc chairs, a slender marble writing desk, and a bathroom so lavishly mosaicked that Hadrian himself would approve.

— Condé Nast Traveler, "The London West Hollywood," 20 Oct. 2017
His favorite spot to nap was only a few feet away under where Annette Baumgard’s writing desk used to be.

— by mark young, miamiherald, "This happened to a 120-year-old farmhouse when Irma hit. And the owner laughed.," 24 Sep. 2017

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