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Definition of Bureaux
1. bureau [n] - See also: bureau
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bureaux
Literary usage of Bureaux
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1904)
"For the more thorough discussion of legislative proposals the Assembly was divided
into a number of bureaux, formed without election by taking from the ..."
2. The Conseil Privé and the Parlements in the Age of Louis XIV: A Study in by Albert N. Hamscher (1987)
"One of these bureaux, composed of six councillors of state, reviewed with reporting
magistrates cases regarding "justice, contentions et règlements des ..."
3. A History of the War Department of the United States: With Biographical by Lurton Dunham Ingersoll (1879)
"The present military bureaux of the United States government, it is believed,
... The system represented in these bureaux has been of slow growth, ..."
4. Woman in France During the Eighteenth Century by Julia Kavanagh (1864)
"It was the thirst of worldly distinction which then possessed the members of
every class of society, that induced Madame Geoffrin to open a bureaux d'esprit ..."
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