Bureau

Noun

 * 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) 🇺🇸 chest of drawers for clothes

Adjectives for Bureau
topographical; time-blackened; well-organized; devoted; legal; complete; self-supporting.

Related terms

 * bureaucracy
 * bureaucrat
 * bureaucratic
 * burel
 * Federal Bureau of Investigation

Thesaurus
office, secretariat, section, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shrievalty, subdivision, agency, bailiwick, chest, chest of drawers, chiffonier, commissariat, constablery, constablewick, constabulary, department, desk, division, dresser, ministry, municipality,

Etymology
French bureau: ‘desk’, 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 undefined: ‘shabby garment’.