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roll top
noun
- a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
- Also called roll-top desk,. a desk with such a cover.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of roll top1
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
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Example Sentences
And then I hurried out of the room without locking the drawerwithout pulling down the roll top of the desk, indeed.
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He was sitting at his roll-top desk, with his feet thrust into the unimaginable litter of papers that covered it.
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He slid back the roll top, and ran a rapid eye over the neatly filed papers.
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Britt Smith was unarmed, his revolver being found afterwards, fully loaded, in his roll-top desk.
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You went to a furniture dealer and bought a large roll-top desk, and when it came home the genius of order came home with it.
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