: a writing desk with a sliding cover often of parallel slats fastened to a flexible backing
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Examples of rolltop desk in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebIn one room, Boric had his only piece of furniture, an old-fashioned rolltop desk.—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022 Brenda, This is a Stow-Davis rolltop desk, about 75 years old.—Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 3 Mar. 2022 Tambour is what makes the lid able to slide, for example, on a rolltop desk.—Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 22 Nov. 2020 And this—hung right over my rolltop desk—still marks the turning point between the two.—Allan Gurganus, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
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