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Webster 1913 Edition
Davenport
Dav′en-port
,Noun.
[From the name of the original maker.
Encyc. Dict.
] A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.
A much battered
davenport
in one of the windows, at which sat a lady writing. A. B. Edwards.