Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BU'REAU, n. [bu'ro; Fr. bureau, an office, a table, a court, a chest of drawers; Sp. bureo, a court of justice; Arm. burell; Fr. bure, a cloth. The primary sense is a cloth covering, a table, like exchequer. – Lunier.]

1. A chest of drawers, for keeping papers or clothes.
2. An embassador's or secretary's office. In Spanish, this word bureo is a court of justice for the trial of persons belonging to the king's household.