douane
Americannoun
plural
douanesExample Sentences
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They were all attached to the Loo-chee custom-house, and the officer who boarded us was le chef de la douane.
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I am not in love with the douane.
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But I could not bring myself to believe that it would get me through the passport office, the douane, and the medical station at the entrance to the Bosphorus.
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We were stopt at the gate; for every gate is a douane, as all provisions pay a tax on entering the city, except bread, corn, and flour, which receive a premium: even one of my trunks was opened.
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I had given a franc to a boy for taking my two trunks in a wheel-barrow a short distance to the coach-office; Boots, at an inn in England, would have been contented with a sixpence; but the porte-faix of the douane had admonished me of the high expectations from English wealth and generosity.
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