douanier

[ dwa-nyey ]

noun

, French.

, plural doua·niers [dw, a, -, nyey].

1. a customs officer or official.

Example Sentences

It is a cluster of untidy stone houses, with nothing to delay the passer-by except a douanier's bureau and a tobacco store.

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Don Sinibaldo, however, attributes this removal to the exactions of the Portuguese douanier.

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This gift they have in common with the Primitives; and this the douanier possessed in an extraordinary degree.

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Nothing doing, and the douanier returns to his fishing off the jettys end.

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"Nothing, no gendarme's helmet, no douanier's cap," whispered M. Ulrich.

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