e/Wooton desk

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has glosseng: The Wooton desk is a variation of the Fall front desk. It is the embodiment (in the field of desk design and construction) of the phenomenon of conspicuous consumption which swept over moneyed society in the United States at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, and was described by Thorstein Veblen in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class.
lexicalizationeng: Wooton desk
instance of(noun) a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments
desk
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