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custom-house|ˈkʌstəmhaʊs|
[custom 4.]
1. A house or office at which custom is collected; esp. a government office situated at a place of import or export, as a seaport, at which customs are levied on goods imported or exported.
b. transf. The office of the establishment or department which has the management of the customs.
a1490Botoner Itin. (Nasmith 1778) 167 Transeundo per le custom-hous usque per le condyt. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. ix. (R.), As he passed by the custome-house, he espyed sitting there a certayne publicane, called Matthewe. 1604Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 141 My men are all at Custome-house vnloding Wares. 1661Cowley Disc. Govt. O. Cromwell Wks. 1710 II. 659 How much we have gotten by it, let the Custom-house and Exchange inform you. 1712Budgell Spect. No. 277 ⁋3 Its Cargo was seized on by the Officers of the Custom-house. 1803Southey Eng. Eclogues ix, He..Swore no false oaths, except at the custom-house. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop iv, Smoked his smuggled cigars under the very nose of the Custom-House.
2. attrib., as custom-house oath, custom-house officer, custom-house station.
1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 101 Agreeing with the custom-house officer for a small matter. 1748Overal in Whiston Mem. 411 A Custom-House Oath is become a proverbial Expression, for a Thing not to be reguarded. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Religion Wks. (Bohn) II. 101 The modes of initiation are more damaging than custom-house oaths.
Hence custom-houser (nonce-wd.), a custom-house officer.
1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xxi. ii, Caitiff of a Custom-houser. |