bureau
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Borrowing from French bureau, earlier "coarse cloth (as desk cover), baize", from Old French burel (“woolen cloth”), diminutive of *bure (cf. Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον (berberion, “shabby garment”).
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Noun [edit]
bureau (plural bureaux or bureaus)
- Office.
- Desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
- (US) Chest of drawers for clothes.
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Translations [edit]
office
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desk
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chest of drawers for clothes
External links [edit]
- bureau in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- bureau in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Dutch [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
bureau n (plural bureaus, diminutive bureautje)
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French [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
Old French burel.
Noun [edit]
bureau m (plural bureaux)
- desk
- office (room)
- ticket office
- the staff of an office
- office; an administrative unit
- (obsolete) frieze (coarse woolen cloth)
Descendants [edit]
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- English borrowed terms
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- American English
- English nouns with irregular plurals
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- Dutch terms derived from French
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- Dutch nouns
- French terms derived from Old French
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- French terms with obsolete senses
