douanier

[ dwa-nyey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, French.

, plural doua·niers [dw, a, -, nyey].

It is a cluster of untidy stone houses, with nothing to delay the passer-by except a douanier's bureau and a tobacco store.

Don Sinibaldo, however, attributes this removal to the exactions of the Portuguese douanier.

This gift they have in common with the Primitives; and this the douanier possessed in an extraordinary degree.

Nothing doing, and the douanier returns to his fishing off the jettys end.

"Nothing, no gendarme's helmet, no douanier's cap," whispered M. Ulrich.

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