douane
Americannoun
plural
douanesExample Sentences
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She paid the douane for my dresses, those sweet things Madame la Marquise, your dear mother, troubled herself to choose for me.
From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
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 Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
Fortunately both lads possessed permits de circulation—documents issued to foreign tourists on entering French territory, and which they had not given up at the douane at Givet.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
The Saar is incorporated in the French douane system and after fifteen years will be submitted to a plebiscite.
From Peaceless Europe by Nitti, Francesco Saverio
I should say he’d have a haxiden’ with ’em, same as he did with that French douane chap.
From Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days by Rainey, W. (William)
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