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douane

/dwan/US // dwan //

窦安,窦娥,窦昂,窦娥冤

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural douanes [dwan]. /dwan/. French.

    • : a custom house; customs.

Examples

  • Of course, our luggage had stuck at the douane at Modane, and was telegraphed for.

  • The first house was the Austrian douane; the second, the inn.

  • "Wait a moment," he said, leading her aside towards the waiting-room, while the crowd that was going to the douane passed them by.

  • The Red Cross on my luggage got me through the douane formalities without any trouble.

  • The ordeal of the Swiss douane was still somewhere ahead; we had entered the neutral strip.