bordereaun.
/bɔːdəˈrəʊ/ A memorandum, detailed statement, schedule; spec. that which Capt. A. Dreyfus was accused of transmitting (cf. Dreyfusard n.).
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aide-mémoire1846
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bordereau1897
worksheet1925
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1897 Daily News 2 Dec. 7/5 General de Pellieux..went on to say ‘The bordereau is no business of mine... The court martial has ruled that Dreyfus wrote the ‘bordereau’.’
1928 D. H. Lawrence Let. 28 July (1962) II. 1069 Your letter with two bordereaux.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Feb. 143/3 The famous bordereau contained gross technical errors and turns of phrase.
1957 Encycl. Brit. VII. 661/1 The bordereau, wrongly attributed to Dreyfus, was in Esterhazy's hand-writing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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