douane
Americannoun
plural
douanesExample Sentences
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Here is also the usual customs station, with a few officers of the Italian douane, to watch the passage of merchandise across the frontier.
From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel
The Red Cross on my luggage got me through the douane formalities without any trouble.
From Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Thurstan, Violetta
I am not in love with the douane.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward
The ordeal of the Swiss douane was still somewhere ahead; we had entered the neutral strip.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow
The duty on a new dress sent or brought from France across the frontier is ten francs; and we were told an amusing story of a French lady, who thought to neatly circumvent the douane.
From East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Betham-Edwards, Matilda
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