"writing-desk" meaning in English

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          "text": "AS ſoon as he was alone, the huſband broke open her writing-deſk; […]",
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          "ref": "1836, Heinrich Heine, translated by G. W. Haven, Letters Auxiliary to the History of Modern Polite Literature in Germany, Boston: James Munroe & Company, pages 145–146:",
          "text": "Beneath this poplar Mademoiselle Sophia now reposes, and the remembrancer which she left me, the book in red morocco and gilt-edge, “Heinrich von Ofterdingen” by Novalis, now lies before me on my writing-desk, and serves me in the compilation of this notice.",
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          "ref": "1855, Charles Dickens, “The Holly-tree. Third Branch—The Bill”, in Christmas Stories […] (The Works of Charles Dickens; XV), de luxe edition, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1881, →OCLC, page 63:",
          "text": "It was eight o’clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.",
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          "ref": "1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 283:",
          "text": "The bombé writing-desk had brass inlay and a marble top, a Bartlett print of Lord Byron’s Childe Harold hung above the pristine twin beds.",
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