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Definition of Customshouse
1. Noun. A government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country.
Definition of Customshouse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Customshouse
Literary usage of Customshouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of California: The American Period by Robert Glass Cleland (1922)
"The lack of a customshouse at San Pedro, however, for some time seriously interfered
with the prosperity of Southern California, and increased enormously ..."
2. The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571). by Kenneth M. Setton (1984)
"A brief hour sufficed for a trumpeter to assemble the army at the customshouse
Gate on the eastern end of the north wall, and the assault was about to ..."
3. On the Mexican Highlands: With a Passing Glimpse of Cuba by William Seymour Edwards (1906)
"We ignored their clamor and clambered aboard the large steam tug to which our
baggage was also transferred, and were quickly landed at the customshouse. ..."
4. Tariff ...: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance (1921)
"... difficulty in arriving ofttimes at the valuations with the customshouse ...
the customshouse appraisers, who often were not experienced cattle men. ..."
5. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1883)
"... amidst public festivities, and a customshouse is being erected in Leon which
will enable merchants to receive their goods and clear them in the capital. ..."
6. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1887)
"... 8ч 13 a 9»54 Fete of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, Frauds on the Vienna
customshouse, 9 » 5 c—12*5 e—16 «8 с — and Germany, 16 » 3 с Harvest m. ..."
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