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bureaux

  • plural
    of bureau.
    bureau
    noun
    a chest of drawers, often with a mirror at the top.

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Guests were seen hugging, making calls, texting friends and loved ones, and their news bureaux.

From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026

Last year Russian state media claimed that RT had seven bureaux in Africa, although this cannot be independently verified.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025

In another measure intended to curb foreign-currency trading, Nigeria has closed thousands of bureaux de change.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2024

"Incidentally, we have also studied enemy weapons quite well, which were taken as trophies and dismantled to the last screw at our military construction bureaux," Medvedev added.

From Reuters ● Feb. 25, 2023

In the bureaux of finance, it has been discovered from the inscriptions that the officials were all of equestrian rank.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill