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a desk so French it became the government, then the building, then the dread.
word originFrom burel, the wool cloth covering medieval writing desks
meaning creepFurniture became office, then department, then entire agencies
bureaucracyLiterally rule by desk, coined as an insult
the FBIThree of its letters are just this one word
british dressersThere a bureau is a fancy fold-down writing desk