douanier

[ dwa-nyey ]

/ dwaˈnyeɪ /

a customs officer or official.

QUIZZES

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!

Question 1 of 7

anchorite

In all these shifts and changes the douanier farce was carefully gone through.
A Day's Tour|Percy Fitzgerald
As he spoke, a douanier lounged out of his little whitewashed lair, and asked for that which Terry had just said he had not.
My Friend the Chauffeur|C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
The douanier gave us up as hopeless, with a resigned shrug of his shoulders.
My Friend the Chauffeur|C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
"Nothing, no gendarme's helmet, no douanier's cap," whispered M. Ulrich.
The Children of Alsace|Ren Bazin

Don Sinibaldo, however, attributes this removal to the exactions of the Portuguese douanier.
A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade|Charles Reginald Haines