bureau

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BU'REAU, noun buro. 1. A chest of drawers, for keeping papers or clothes. 2. An ambassador's or secretary's office. In Spanish, this word bureo is a court of justice for the trial of persons belonging to the king's household.
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