bureau, n.m., bureau, writing-table, desk; office; board, bench (in a court of judicature); committee; court (personages). — de tabac; tobacconist’s shop. Chef de —; head clerk; chief of a department. Déposer sur le —; (parliament) to lay upon the table. Payer à — ouvert; (com.) to pay on demand. Prendre l’air du —; to see how matters stand; to call in at the office. Vent du —; aspect of affairs. — de placement; registry office for servants, etc.
☉bureau, n.m., drugget.
bureaucrate, n.m., bureaucrat, clerk in a public office; red-tapist.
bureaucratie, n.f., bureaucracy, red-tapeism.
burette, n.f., cruet; vase, flagon; (bicycle) oil-can.
burgau, n.m., burgaudine, n.f., burgau; burgau mother of pearl.
burgrave, n.m., Burgrave.
burgraviat, n.m., Burgraviate.
burin, n.m., graver, graving-tool; (fig.) pen.
buriner, v.a., to engrave.