Meanings
nounscrutore (plural scrutores)
plural scrutores
- obsoleteObsolete form of escritoire.
But this princess, who has an infinite deal of wit and humour, set me gently on my feet upon the scrutoire […]
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag)1 more example
When our heroe had finished and sent this letter, he went to his scrutore, took out Miss Western's muff, kissed it several times, and then strutted some turns about his room […]
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 578
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