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escritoire|ɛskriːˈtwɑː(r), ˈɛskrɪtwɔː(r)|
Forms: 8 escrutore, 8–9 escrutoire, escritoir, (8 escretore, -critore, 9 -cretoire), 8– escritoire.
[a. F. escritoire (now écritoire) writing-case, writing-desk:—late L. scrīptōrium apparatus or place for writing, f. scrībĕre to write.
The aphetic forms scritore, scrutoire, occur in 17th c.]
A writing-desk constructed to contain stationery and documents; in early use, often one of a portable size; more recently, chiefly applied to a larger piece of furniture, a bureau or secretary.
[1611Cotgr., Escriptoire, a penner.] 1706–7Farquhar Beaux' Strat. v. iv, Captain Gibbet..had made bold..with your Study and Escritore. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) I. iii. vi. 598/2 Chests of drawers, Escrutores, Tables, and such like Joinery Wares. 1742Fielding J. Andrews iii. iii. She..accordingly departed herself, having first broken open my escrutore. 1756Nugent Gr. Tour, France IV. 115 The escrutore, in the middle of this chamber, contains a most magnificent collection of antient and modern medals. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxiv, In the large shining mahogany escrutoire Mr. Osborne had a drawer especially devoted to his son's affairs and papers. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal ix, An escritoire in the Sherraton style.
attrib.1849Dickens Dav. Copp. xvii, There was a chest of drawers with an escrutoire top.
Hence escriˈtorial a. nonce-wd., of or pertaining to an escritoire.
1785Cowper Let. Newton Wks. 1837 XV. 163 One more circumstance..will impress upon you..a sense of the value we set upon its escritorial capacity. |