secretaire

See also: secrétaire

English

Etymology

From French secrétaire.

Noun

secretaire (plural secretaires)

1. A kind of writing desk.
   • [1884], [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “‘The Breaker has come up before Them’”, in Ishmael: […], volume I, London: John and Robert Maxwell, […], →OCLC, page 289:

     The table was covered with a confusion of papers, books, pamphlets, all heaped upon one another pell-mell; and an open secretaire against the wall, was chokeful of the same litter; manuscripts, books in yellow-paper covers, books in smart bindings, books in shabby bindings, stuffed in anyhow, one on the top of the other, sideways, longways, endways; a row of pigeon-holes gorged with papers in the background.

Anagrams

• secretarie

Dutch

Etymology

From French secrétaire.

Pronunciation

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Noun

secretaire m (plural secretaires, diminutive secretairetje n)

1. a writing desk or more precisely a secretary desk