douane
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douanes
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The Saar is incorporated in the French douane system and after fifteen years will be submitted to a plebiscite.
From Peaceless Europe by Francesco Saverio Nitti
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
Some four or five miles north of Bailleul, where the douane posts mark the marches of the Franco-Belgian frontier, is the village of Locre.
From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by John Hartman Morgan
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.
From Caught by the Turks by Francis Yeats-Brown
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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