Bureau
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Translingual
Proper noun
Bureau
- A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Louis Édouard Bureau (1830-1918).
Further reading
English
Proper noun
Bureau
- A surname from French.
Derived terms
German
Noun
Bureau n (strong, genitive Bureaus, plural Bureaus or Bureaux)
- Obsolete spelling of Büro.
- c. 1914, Franz Kafka, Der Prozess [The Trial], Berlin: Die Schmiede, published 1925:
- Es war still wie in irgendeinem vergessenen Bureau.
- It was quiet, like in some forgotten office.