Bordereau

 

Word of the Day for Thursday, September 12, 2013

bordereau \bawr-duh-ROH; Fr. bawr-duh-ROH\, noun:

a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.

At the War Office, Dreyfus was told to take a letter from dictation, "'so phrased as to include some passages'" from the bordereau.
-- Richard Clark Sterne, Dark Mirror, 1994

“We need a photograph of the bordereau,” he said when he met Dubon at his office that evening.
-- Kate Taylor, A Man in Uniform, 2011

Bordereau comes from the French word of the same spelling, which is a diminutive form of the French word for board. It entered English in the late 1800s.

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