scrutore

1) A writing desk or cabinet, from French escritoire.

The OED has similar spellings from 1665: 1728 a scrutore and chair, Wooldale

1755 ‘unto my son John Frankland Ł40 and a scrutoe [sic] standing in the parlour’, Lees in Bowland.

dates 1728 1755

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