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单词 carlton house table
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Carlton House table
attributive. Designating a type of writing desk, typically semicircular in shape with small drawers and compartments along the back and sides of the desktop. Frequently in Carlton House table, Carlton House desk.This type of desk was first manufactured in the 1790s (apparently for the Prince of Wales, whose London residence was Carlton House).
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1796 Estimate Sketch Bk. (Gillow & Co.) 7 June (City of Westm. Arch. Centre, 0344/97) f. 1245 Carleton House Table.
1804 Morning Post 10 Aug. An excellent mahogany Carlton House table.
1844 Morning Chron. 18 Sept. 1/6 (advt.) Carlton-house writing table.
1955 R. Fastnedge Eng. Furnit. Styles x. 244 The form of writing-table known to contemporaries as the ‘Carlton House’ table..was extremely popular in the last decade of the [18th] century.
1971 Country Life 2 Sept. 545/2 The best Carlton house writing table I remember seeing this year was at Christie's.
2015 D. Smith Death in Leamington ix. 111 The lanterns hanging from the ceiling were of the wrong period and..the Carlton House desk was too early for the house.
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