24 December 2017

escritoire

[es-kri-twahr]

noun

1. writing desk (def 1).

Origin of escritoire

Middle French, Latin
1605-1615; < French, Middle French < Latin scrīptōrium. See scribe1, -tory2

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Historical Examples

I took him to my room, and shewed him my escritoire, my casket, and my will.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Ernest and myself were seated side by side by the escritoire.
Ernest Linwood
Caroline Lee Hentz

The magistrate pointed to the escritoire with its open drawers.
Fantmas
Pierre Souvestre

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Today’s quote

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

– Ariel Dorfman

On this day

24 December 1865 – Ku Klux Klan formed by a group of confederate veterans who are opposed to civil rights for African-Americans.

24 December 1979 – The Soviet Army, comprised of 100,000 troops, invades Afghanistan in response to Afghan insurgents (armed by the United States) who had been attacking Soviet troops. The occupation lasts for 10 years and results in the deaths of between 600,000 and 2,000,000 Afghan civilians, as well as 6,000,000 refugees who fled to Pakistan and Iran. The Soviets withdrew in 1989. The cost of the Afghan occupation is a significant factor that led to the economic collapse of the Soviet Union. During the Soviet occupation, the United States funded Afghan resistance in the form of the Mujahideen and other militant Islamic groups, out of whom emerged Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The real victims in this war were the Afghan people, who continue to suffer and to comprise a significant portion of global refugee numbers because of the involvement of the USSR and the USA during this period.