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Definition of Kneehole
1. a space for the knees [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kneehole
Literary usage of Kneehole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Due Reverence: Antiques in the Possession of the American Philosophical Society by Murphy D. Smith (1992)
"All drawers and slides were rebuilt, the molding at the kneehole was restored,
and it was refinished.1 Fig. 4. ..."
2. How to Collect Old Furniture by Frederick Litchfield (1904)
"If a pedestal or kneehole writing table be preferred, this may also be purchased,
quite genuine, but it will be a great deal more costly than the bureau or ..."
3. How to Collect Old Furniture by Frederick Litchfield (1904)
"In the eighteenth-century we have the " wine " table,
the "Pembroke," "sofa," "side," "pier" or "console," "kneehole" and the " Carlton. ..."
4. That which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan (1918)
"... as though the border of the big Turkey rug on which stood the kneehole
writing-table were a frontier-line that must not be crossed. As he did this, ..."
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