douane
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douanes
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Here is also the usual customs station, with a few officers of the Italian douane, to watch the passage of merchandise across the frontier.
From The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles
Captain Winston attended to the douane, and it is settled for us to keep the car as an "investment."
From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
You wait in a queue and show passports to Serbian police; you take your baggage through the Serbian douane and it is searched for articles liable to export duty.
From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Stephen Graham
As I sat waiting in the douane, I felt like puffing out and growing to make room for Russia inside me.
From Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 by Ruth Pierce
"Wait a moment," he said, leading her aside towards the waiting-room, while the crowd that was going to the douane passed them by.
From Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphry Ward
The quay is outside the gate, and here are stationed the douanes, or custom-officers, who ordered our trunks to be taken from the cart, and searched them from top to bottom.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
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