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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
contraband .
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Examples
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They Ibmetimes winched and flinched under government, at other times they fmuggled and contrabanded in trade.
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a thought too wanton, they are crept into my verses through my inadvertency; if the searchers find any in the cargo, let them be staved or forfeited, like contrabanded goods; at least, let their authors be answerable for them, as being but imported merchandise, and not of my own manufacture.
English literary criticism Various
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