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Bureau

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Bureau (/ˈbjʊər/ BURE-oh) may refer to:

Agencies and organizations

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Furniture

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  • Bureau is a piece of furniture with hinged writing space of flap resting at an angle when closed
    • Bureau bedstead is form of a folding bed that looks like a bureau when closed
    • Bureau bookcase is a combination of a bureau and a bookcase.
    • Bureau cabinet is a combination of a bureau and display shelves.
    • Bureau dressing table is a combination of a dressing table and a writing desk. Later models by Chippendale lost the actual bureau.
    • Bureau table is a variant of a kneehole desk with drawers.
  • Chest of drawers, a piece of furniture that has multiple, stacked, parallel drawers
  • Bureau à gradin, a writing table with one or several tiers of small drawers and pigeonholes built on a part of the desktop surface.

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People

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Other uses

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See also

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