Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 133
Illus. 71. —Desk-boxes. 1654. made of oak, like the smaler desk in the precedingillustration. The next style of desk made its appearance in theinventories of about 1660, under a name with French scriptor, scrittore, scru- … derivation: scrutoir,tor, scriptoire,down to the phoneti-cally spelled screw-tor. About 1720the word bureau,also from the French,came into use in com-bination with the word desk, or table. It hascontinued to be employed up to the present time,for the slant-top desk is even now, in country…
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