bureau

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French bureau (an office, a desk or writing table, a court, a chest of drawers, orig. a kind of coarse brownish or russet stuff with which writing tables were covered) < Old French burel (a coarse woolen stuff).

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Singular
bureau

Plural
bureaux or bureaus

bureau (plural bureaux or bureaus)

  1. office
  2. desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath
  3. (US) chest of drawers for clothes

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bureau (Plural: bureaus)

  1. desk
  2. office

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bureau m. (plural bureaus)

  1. desk
  2. office