Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A secretary desk or escritoire is made of a base of wide drawers topped by a desk with a hinged desktop surface, which...
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desktop is supported by sliders, like a secretary desk or a slant top desk when it is unfolded. The tambour desk is an antique form indigenous to the United...
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cousin the secretary desk, all working papers, documents and other items have to be stored before the desk is closed. Unlike the secretary desk, the fall-front...
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Butler's desk Campaign desk Carlton house desk Carrel desk Cheveret desk Computer desk Credenza desk Cubicle desk Cylinder desk Davenport desk Desk and bench...
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A pedestal desk or a tanker desk is usually a large, flat, free-standing desk made of a simple rectangular working surface resting on two pedestals or...
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A mechanical desk is usually an antique desk type which was produced during the 18th or the 19th century. At one extreme there are desks furnished with...
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The slant-top desk, also called secretary desk, or more properly, a bureau, is a piece of writing furniture with a lid that closes at an angle and opens...
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spinet desk could be said to be a smaller, less obtrusive cousin of the rolltop desk and the cylinder desk. Like them, and unlike the secretary desk or the...
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in 1909, there have been six different desks used in the office by the president of the United States. The desk usually sits in front of the south wall...
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desk described the model as follows: Everything that ingenuity can suggest or devise to facilitate desk labor, has been introduced in our secretary....
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cluttered working surface of the desk. This form of desk is usually placed against a wall, like its antique uncle, the secretary desk. Small or home offices are...
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The fire screen desk (also known as a screen writing table) is a very small antique desk form meant to be placed in front of a fireplace to keep a user's...
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The Resolute desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House...
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A desk or bureau is a piece of furniture with a flat table-style work surface used in a school, office, home or the like for academic, professional or...
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Secretaire en portefeuille (category Desks)
much like a fall front desk which has been reduced in depth to a bare minimum. Like the fall front desk and the secretary desk the secretaire en portefeuille's...
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Receptionist (redirect from Reception desk)
work is usually performed in a waiting area such as a lobby or front office desk of an organization or business. The title receptionist is attributed to the...
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Secretary desk, a desk with a hinged surface Secretary hand, a style of European handwriting developed in the early sixteenth century The Secretary (play)...
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A typewriter desk (also sometimes called a typewriter table or typing table) is a desk form meant to hold a typewriter at the proper height for the typist's...
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New York: Poseidon Press. ISBN 978-0-6797-2327-1. "Secretary leaves movie-goers bent over desks". The Johns Hopkins News-Letter. October 31, 2002. Shainberg...
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A Moore desk is not one but two large antique desk forms. The "Moore Office Queen" is a massive desk, made for a sitting user. From the outside it looks...
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drafts end up on the president’s desk, as well as how and when the president will receive them. The Staff Secretary also works with senior White House...
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training. After a brief period of desk attachment in the Ministry of External Affairs, at the rank of Assistant Secretary, the officer is posted to an Indian...
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The candy desk has been a tradition of the United States Senate since 1965, whereby a senator who sits at a particular desk near a busy entrance keeps...
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desk is a mahogany partners desk that was used by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office as his Oval Office desk. One of only six desks used...
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the cabriole leg, cushioned seats, wing-back chairs, and practical secretary desk-bookcase pieces." Other elements characterizing the style include pad...
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nominee and six-time Drama Desk Award nominee, Block won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress...
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The C&O desk is one of six desks ever used in the Oval Office by a sitting President of the United States. The C&O Desk was used in the executive office...
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The desk in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, colloquially known as the Theodore Roosevelt desk, is...
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