douane

[ dwan ]

/ dwan /

a custom house; customs.

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Why is he to go to the douane, and thrust himself into the very jaws of danger?
The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh|William Makepeace Thackeray
The ordeal of the Swiss douane was still somewhere ahead; we had entered the neutral strip.
The Car That Went Abroad|Albert Bigelow Paine
"Wait a moment," he said, leading her aside towards the waiting-room, while the crowd that was going to the douane passed them by.
Lady Rose's Daughter|Mrs. Humphry Ward
Those Italian ruffians of the douane, with their disgusting search-light!
My Friend the Chauffeur|C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

It is three or four kilometres from the rope of the frontier to the French line of douane and its customs-gendarmes.
The Challenge of the Dead|Stephen Graham