Definitions

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  • noun A custom-house officer.

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  • noun An officer of the French customs.

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  • noun An officer of the French customs.

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • Whenever an official looked him over, Switters would commence to drool, inspiring the douanier to shift his attentions elsewhere.

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • Whenever an official looked him over, Switters would commence to drool, inspiring the douanier to shift his attentions elsewhere.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • During the week, he worked as a customs officer, a douanier.

    TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995

  • One, the douanier, Rousseau, has painted no very great difference between the sexes.

    TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995

  • During the week, he worked as a customs officer, a douanier.

    TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995

  • One, the douanier, Rousseau, has painted no very great difference between the sexes.

    TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995

  • The French customs formalities had delayed her only a minute or so, mostly taken up with a stylish piece of ogling from a raffish-looking douanier who wielded the chalk of his species, with, Arabella thought, unusual panache.

    Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983

  • Just tell her loudly and clearly to get out while the douanier was hovering close by.

    The Luxembourg Run Ellin, Stanley 1977

  • The inscription above the arch, "To a happy and prosperous entrance," seemed a mockery in the old douanier days, when delays and extortions vexed the soul of the visitor, and produced a mood anything but favourable to the enjoyment of the Eternal City.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • No one can have seen a picture of this most talented douanier without being convinced that technique for purely private personal needs has been beautified to an extraordinary degree.

    Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

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  • A customs officer.

    January 14, 2008