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Definition of Customhouses
1. customhouse [n] - See also: customhouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Customhouses
Literary usage of Customhouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"These are needed for forts, armories, and arsenals, for navy yards, lighthouses,
for customhouses, post offices, and courthouses, and other public uses. ..."
2. Inquiry Into Occupation and Administration of Haiti and Santo Domingo by United States Congress. Senate. Select committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo. [from old catalog] (1921)
"Coming now, sir, to the message of August 19 which directed yon, on the authority ,if
the State Department to seize the 10 ma,n customhouses, you test,fied ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1842)
"The principal customhouses are under the immediate control of the ... The chief
customhouses are divided into two main districts ; twelve are in the eastern ..."
4. Commercial Handbook of China by Julean Arnold (1920)
"At the treaty ports, as well as at all important stations on the coast and
alongside the maritime customhouses, are native customhouses, which collect ..."
5. The American Government by Frederick Jennings Haskin (1911)
"There are a number of other customhouses, usually located at important cities
along the coast and along the frontiers, while others are found at smaller ..."
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