douane
Americannoun
plural
douanesExample Sentences
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She paid the douane for my dresses, those sweet things Madame la Marquise, your dear mother, troubled herself to choose for me.
From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
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
Meanwhile the French douane rules in the Saar.
From Peaceless Europe by Nitti, Francesco Saverio
As I sat waiting in the douane, I felt like puffing out and growing to make room for Russia inside me.
From Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 by Pierce, Ruth
The Saar is incorporated in the French douane system and after fifteen years will be submitted to a plebiscite.
From Peaceless Europe by Nitti, Francesco Saverio
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