douanier
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A startled douanier, standing in the door of his office stared up into the square faces of grey-coated horsemen riding past.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile the douanier came at the right moment.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
No one can have seen a picture of this most talented douanier without being convinced that technique for purely private personal needs has been beautified to an extraordinary degree.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden
The douanier was about to inspect, in his leisured way, when a peasant entered with some bags to be weighed.
From The Car of Destiny by Both, Armand
They were the initials, so our guide informed us, of the unfortunate douanier who had there met his death.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various
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