Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 131
k made its appearance in theinventories of about 1660, under a name with Frenchderivation: scrutoir, scriptor, scrittore, scru-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… … Illus. 72. — Desk-box. 1650. io8 Furniture of the Olden Time years, while for the last hundred years it has beenalmost entirely employed, alone or in combinationwith other words, I have designated as desks allpieces of furniture made for use in writing.
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