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My shambles contrasts sharply with the technical mastery of the canvas hanging on the wall behind me: Ray's copy of a painting from Monet's series Cabane des douaniers, effet d'après-midi.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2013

At Paris' Orly airport, international flights were delayed while douaniers and police poked through every outgoing suitcase.

From Time Magazine Archive

The douaniers gained on him, and expected him to desist from his flight, and surrender.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various

"What a needless annoyance in travelling it is for a family to be stopped by douaniers, only to extort money for not doing a duty which would be absurd if done!"

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various

A buona grazia of a scudo at the frontier obviated the delay which would otherwise have occurred in examining our baggage by the douaniers.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E