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 | | A secretary (A piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments) desk is made of a base of wide drawers topped by a desk with an hinged desktop surface, which is in turn topped by a bookcase usually closed with a pair of doors, often made of glass. |
 | | Among home desk forms, it is the tallest, biggest and heaviest of all, if we exclude wall units and modular desks which can be disassembled for moving, or some of the biggest of the (Click link for more info and facts about armoire desk) armoire desks, which are usually delivered unassembled. |
 | | In such a case, the secretary is also known as a (Click link for more info and facts about Mechanical desk) Mechanical desk like many other desk forms which have some sort of mechanism pushing out elements of the desk and then pulling them back in automatically. |
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