NOUN
- desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer
How To Use reading desk In A Sentence
- The analogia, or reading desks for the Epistle and Gospel, remained at the sides of the choir, and were used for the same purpose as the ambo, which, as belonging to the choir, was considered a part of the cancelli and was chiefly used for reading or singing parts of the liturgy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- While in Cologne yesterday I decided to chase up a particular book, discovered that a favourite bookshop (armchairs and reading desks!) had been ingested into an appallingly sterile chain, and on a whim - rather tiredly at this point - went up into the tiny Käthe Kollwitz Museum, which shares the same building and which I've never managed to visit despite good intentions. Archive 2008-09-01