word : bordereau
usage:
meaning :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
Origin:
Bordereau comes from the French word of the same spelling, which is a diminutive form of the French wordfor board . It entered English in the late 1800s.
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