bordereau
Americannoun
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bordereaux
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of bordereau
1895–1900; < French, equivalent to bord edge ( see border) + -ereau; see -rel
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Marie-Georges Picquart stumbled on evidence that the real spy was Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, a commandant whose handwriting did indeed match that of the bordereau, and who did indeed need money to cover huge debts.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2010
"He must have known that he wrote the bordereau," he replied.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
The President of the Salamander had been in the building during most of the past twenty-four hours, taking off the lines in the burned district on a special bordereau.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
He may have done something else, but he never, in my belief, wrote the bordereau.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
He had won the help of a skilled writer Bernard Lazare; a daily paper succeeded in obtaining and publishing a facsimile of the bordereau.
From A History of the Third French Republic by C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad) Wright
Either the German and Italian governments will now publish or not publish all the details of their transactions—give the exact documents meant by the bordereaux and the exact names of the French traitors.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
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