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noun, plural bu·reaus, bu·reaux 
[byoor-ohz] .
[byoor-ohz] . 1.
a chest of drawers, often with a mirror at the top.
2.
a division of a government department or an independent administrative unit.
3.
an office for collecting or distributing news or information, coordinating work, or performing specified services; agency: a travel bureau; a news bureau.
4.
Chiefly British. a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
Origin:
1710–20; < French: desk, office, originally a kind of cloth (used to cover desks, etc.), Anglo-French, Old French burel, equivalent to bur- (probably < *būra, variant of Late Latin burra wool, fluff; compare bourrée) + -el noun suffix
1710–20; < French: desk, office, originally a kind of cloth (used to cover desks, etc.), Anglo-French, Old French burel, equivalent to bur- (probably < *būra, variant of Late Latin burra wool, fluff; compare bourrée) + -el noun suffix
Related forms
sub·bu·reau, noun, plural -reaus, -reaux.
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is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Word Origin & History
bureau
1690s, from Fr. bureau "office, desk," originally "cloth covering for a desk," from burel "coarse woolen cloth" (as a cover for writing desks), O.Fr. dim. of bure "dark brown cloth," which is perhaps either from L. burrus "red," or from L.L. burra "wool, shaggy garment." Offices being full of such desks,
EXPANDthe meaning expanded 1720 to "division of a government."
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