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English
Noun
writing-desk (plural writing-desks)
- Dated form of writing desk.
1789 May 27, , “Unjust accusations seldom affect us much, but from some justice in them”, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume I, London: A Strahan; and T Cadell, , →OCLC, page 181:AS ſoon as he was alone, the huſband broke open her writing-deſk;
1836, Heinrich Heine, translated by G. W. Haven, Letters Auxiliary to the History of Modern Polite Literature in Germany, Boston: James Munroe & Company, pages 145–146:Beneath this poplar Mademoiselle Sophia now reposes, and the remembrancer which she left me, the book in red morocco and gilt-edge, “Heinrich von Ofterdingen” by Novalis, now lies before me on my writing-desk, and serves me in the compilation of this notice.
1855, Charles Dickens, “The Holly-tree. Third Branch—The Bill”, in Christmas Stories With Illustrations by F. A. Fraser, H. French, E. G. Dalziel, J. Mahoney, T. Green, and C. Green: In Two Volumes">…] (The Works of Charles Dickens; XV), de luxe edition, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1881, →OCLC, page 63:It was eight o’clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.
1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 283:The bombé writing-desk had brass inlay and a marble top, a Bartlett print of Lord Byron’s Childe Harold hung above the pristine twin beds.