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scritoire

scritoire is the obsolete form of escritoire.

Meaning of escritoire

Noun

escritoire (plural escritoires)

  1. A writing desk with a hinged door that provides the writing surface.
    • To surprise him, by finding on his table the books he liked, or the escritoire he had occasion for, gave Louisa the most delightful moments life had hitherto afforded her;...1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC...

Forms of scritoire

pluralscritoires

Questions about scritoire

What is scritoire the obsolete form of?
Scritoire is the obsolete form of escritoire.

Words near scritoire in the dictionary

  1. scritched
  2. scritches
  3. scritching
  4. scritchings
  5. scritchy
  6. scritoire
  7. scritoires
  8. scrivan
  9. scrivano
  10. scrivanoes
  11. scrivanos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scritoire (page history and authors); escritoire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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