douanier
[dwa-nyey]
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noun, plural doua·niers [dwa-nyey] /dwaˈnyeɪ/. French.
a customs officer or official.
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Nothing doing, and the douanier returns to his fishing off the jettys end.
Rambles on the RivieraFrancis Miltoun
"Nothing, no gendarme's helmet, no douanier's cap," whispered M. Ulrich.
The Children of AlsaceRen Bazin
With a little ingenuity and disingenuousness one might make a douanier of them.
Since CzanneClive Bell
From the latter, at any rate, the douanier needed no freeing.
Since CzanneClive Bell
That is what the great Primitives did, and what the douanier could not do always.
Since CzanneClive Bell