custom housen.

Brit.

/ˈkʌstəm haʊs/, U.S.

/ˈkəstəm ˌhaʊs/

Forms:

α. see custom n. and adj. and house n.¹ and int.

β. 1900s– customs house.

Also with capital initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: custom n., house n.¹

Etymology: In α. forms < custom n. + house n.¹ In β. forms < the plural of custom n. + house n.¹

1. A building or office at a port of entry or border crossing where customs duties are levied and collected, and documents relating to such duties are processed; esp. a building at a port where customs duties are levied on goods for import or export and vessels are cleared for entering or leaving the country, often after inspection of their cargo for dutiable goods. Cf. custom n. 3c. Now historical, and preserved in the names of buildings formerly used for this purpose.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > customs house or tollbooth

tollbooth13..

custom housea1400

toll-housec1440

dogana1605

douane1656

scale1682

excise-office1698

sayer choky1751

toll-shop1789

toll-office1841

chop-house1882

naka1984

α.

a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 5583 (MED) Pore men..rekened þe custome houses echoun, At whych þey had gode, and at whyche noun.

1480 W. Worcester in J. Nasmith Itineraria (1778) 167 Transeundo per le custom-hous usque per le condyt.

1538 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. ix. B He saw a man (Mathew by name) syttynge in the custome house.

1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore sig. F3^v My men are all at Custome-house vnloding Wares.

1791 F. Grose Grumbler viii. 31 A set of men, who attend at the Custom-house, under the denomination of Damned Souls, in order, for a certain fee, to swear out any goods whatsoever for the merchants.

1810 R. Southey in Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1808 1 ii. p ii He..Swore no false oaths, except at the custom-house.

1860 Times 5 Jan. 10/2 Several meetings have been held at the Custom-house within the last fortnight for the formation of a corps of Rifle Volunteers.

1954 N.Y. Times 8 May 7/5 The Custom House, she said, was ‘bulging’ with such bulk mailings from countries behind the Iron Curtain.

2016 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 18 Mar. 17 The funds are part of more than £650,000 awarded to also help restore a 16th century harbour and old Custom House.

β. 1784 New Ann. Reg. 1783 Foreign Lit. 283/1 Rates of Duties of all the Harbours and Customs-houses in the Russian empire.1812 tr. N.-J. Thiéry de Menonville Trav. Guaxaca in J. Pinkerton Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. XIII. 839 As soon as the horses arrived, I made all haste to the customs house to load my effects.1936 M. R. Anand Coolie iii. 163 There is some dutiable silk in it [sc. a bag] and we will slip by the customs house if I am not riding in a carriage.1993 Canad. Geographic Jan. 40/1 Ventin works out of a furnished post office and customs house just down the street.

2. With the: the government department or agency which levies and collects customs duties, and which controls the flow of goods into and out of a country; customs officers collectively; = custom n. 3b. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > with specific responsibility

intelligence office1659

custom house1661

secret service1737

home department1782

home office1790

War Department1797

port authority1851

W.D.1855

welfare department1904

welfare1928

social services1968

1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 60 How much we have gotten by it, let the Custom-house and Exchange inform you.

1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 277. ¶3 Its Cargo was seized on by the Officers of the Custom-house.

1811 J. Black tr. A. von Humboldt Polit. Ess. New Spain IV. 93 At the entry of goods into the Spanish colonies, the custom-house exacts from the free effects, or produce of Spanish agriculture and manufactures 9½ per cent.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. iv. 90 Smoked his smuggled cigars under the very nose of the Custom House.

1870 Boston Daily Advertiser 4 Jan. Collector Casey has a plan for ‘reforming’ the New Orleans custom house by casting out the republicans.

1910 N.Y. Times 9 Mar. 9/1 It is thought that the Custom House will be through with its inspection and appraisement to-morrow.

1980 M. P. Rogin in Criminal Justice Hist. 1 193 Melville..retained his youthful image of the Custom House as strict moral authority.

2012 N. C. Luận Nationalist in Viet Nam Wars ii. 21 Hiding rudimentary distilling tools on someone's private land and then reporting it to the French customs house was one way to bring trouble to one's enemy.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive, as custom house duty, custom house man, custom house station, etc. Now chiefly historical.

ΚΠ

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. v. 13 It should be sufficient for him to Register an invoice of his Cargazon in the Custom-House Book.

1660 T. Watson Beatitudes 467 He was a Custome-house man.

1771 R. Cumberland West Indian i. v. 7 The whole tribe of custom-house extortioners, boat-men, tide-waiters and water-bailiffs.

1832 Mirror of Parl. (2nd Sess., 10th Parl.) 4 3416/1 The petition..for the repeal of the Customs-house duty on licences for boats employed in the fishing-trade.

1838 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 8 37 At 16m. [along the road,] Ráhdárí, or Custom-house station.

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 8/2 The Custom House authorities have given notice that on and after October 1 their officers will have instructions to weigh and tare packages of tea to the half-pound.

1931 A. P. Wadsworth & J. De Lacy Mann Cotton Trade & Industr. Lancs. 151 The bejutapauts, negannepauts, nicconees,..and more than twenty other varieties mentioned in the Custom House Accounts were all coarse cottons in different colours.

1985 Times of India 28 Feb. 11/1 (heading) Customs house men end strike.

2003 J. Bannister Rule of Admirals iv. 129 In 1772, for example, local merchants refused to pay the customs house fees at St. John's.

b. attributive. Designating a vessel used by customs authorities to patrol the coast and prevent smuggling, as custom house boat, custom house cutter, etc. Cf. revenue n. Compounds 1b. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. iv. 199 Several of the Custom-House Boats came on Board of us, to take in all the Passengers and their Goods.

1776 T. Aram Hist. Thomas Aram 62 The custom-house vessel was at this time repairing at Lymington.

1856 Househ. Words 28 June 553/1 It was impossible..to dismiss the Custom-house cutter, because the shadow of her topmast fell upon my paper.

1908 Corr. Wrongs done to Amer. Citizens by Govt. Venezuela 370 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (60th Congr., 1st Sess.: Senate Doc. 413) XXIV We immediately went to the anchorage indicated, the customs officer returning to the shore with the customs-house boat.

2008 M. Cox Glass of Time xv. 239 This party was quickly followed by the Customs House boat.

C2.

custom house broker n. a broker who assists and represents importers or (now less commonly) exporters, typically businesses, in transactions or dealings with customs authorities; = customs broker n. at custom n. and adj. Compounds 1d(b).

ΚΠ

1815 Morning Post 6 Dec. He became acquainted with the Defendant, a Custom-house Broker, whom he employed.

1932 Columbia Law Rev. 32 900 Appellee, an importer, made a contract with a customs house broker whereby..the broker agreed to file and prosecute a claim for a refund of excessive customs duties.

1985 N. Pileggi Wiseguy 97 Space in the buildings was leased to twenty-eight airlines, air express agencies, customhouse brokers, federal inspection services, and carting companies.

2000 L. A. DiMatteo Law Internat. Contracting iv. 77 Following payment, the importer may instruct the bank to forward the documents to a customs house broker.

custom house oath n. now historical a declaration of dutiable goods made on oath to customs authorities by a merchant or trader; (in extended use and in figurative contexts) a false oath, a lie, a deception.

ΚΠ

1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 5 They take a great Liberty in their Custom-house Oaths.

c1695 England's Appeal High Court Parl. 2 False Swearing them out of their Lives is grown a Crime no less common, than notorious, as customary, as if it were a Custom-house Oath, or Entry.

1779 Hist. War in Amer. between Great Brit. & her Colonies 5 The commanders..were ordered to..take the usual Custom-house oaths, and observe the Custom-house regulations.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiii. 228 The modes of initiation are more damaging than custom-house oaths.

1961 William & Mary Q. 18 220 His avowal..may be taken as the equivalent of a customs-house oath, for while it did not quite fit the facts, it saved his principals from embarrassing scrutiny.

2000 Stud. Romanticism 39 601 He objects first to the Scottish jurist Lord Kames's defense of dishonesty in the case of the custom-house oath.

custom house officer n. now historical a person whose job is to collect customs duties and prevent illegal or contraband goods from entering or leaving a country; = customs officer n. at custom n. and adj. Compounds 1d(b).

ΚΠ

1654 S. E. Toutch-stone Mony & Commerce 21 Some of them by report using to carry it for Holland, being never visited [by] the Custom-house Officers.

1733 in Statutes at Large (1811) IX. 311 The Ship or Vessel wherein they shall be imported..may be seized by..any Customs House Officer.

1880 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 30 Apr. 1903/2 It [sc. the port and city of Nanaimo] had only one Customs-house officer, when it was fairly entitled to two or three.

1912 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 82 A bustling German customs house officer clambered aboard and we went through the formalities of civilized travel.

2004 Bristol Post (Nexis) 14 Sept. 41 They started to throw stones at the windows and matters would have got out of hand, save for the fact that some of the servants and the Custom House officers made a counter attack.

custom house official n. a person whose job is to collect customs duties and prevent illegal or contraband goods from entering or leaving a country; = customs official n. at custom n. and adj. Compounds 1d(b).In quot. 1831 as a humorous name for the Globe newspaper, published in Washington, D.C.

ΚΠ

1831 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 30 Aug. A Custom House Officer has written a letter to the Custom House Official (the Globe!) stating that the opposition of the Editor of this paper to Gen. Jackson is mercenary.

1837 Foreign Q. Rev. Jan. 300 The revenue arising from imported goods could not possibly cover the expense of the frontier guards and custom-house officials.

1868 Birmingham Daily Post 7 Aug. 2/5 Last year's report, just issued by the Customs House officials, is as prosy a document as can be.

1925 E. M. Brent-Dyer School at Chalet iii. 31 The custom-house official grunted as he chalked the mark on the three suit-cases.

2015 Irish Times (Nexis) 23 Feb. 6 Some of the work may be done by Custom House officials.

custom house waiter n. now historical and rare a customs officer who watches out for and inspects newly arrived ships in order to ensure that any customs duties due on imported goods are payed; = tide-waiter n. 1.

ΚΠ

1649 M. Nedham Most Pithy Exhort. 2 The Custom-house-waiters have wink'd at many of their pretty passages between ship and shore.

1768 in Hist. Essex County, Mass. (1888) I. 94/1 A Custom House waiter, on Wednesday last, by informing an officer of the Customs that some measures were taken on board a vessel in this Harbor.., engaged the attention of a number of the inhabitants.

1831 tr. in App. Rep. Affairs E. India Company II. 5 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 320B) VI. 1 The native salt Merchants, Hong Merchants, custom-house waiters and interpreters, are all seen in chairs when they please.

1992 J. Youings & P. W. Cornford in M. Duffy New Maritime Hist. Devon I. xi. 102 At a total valuation for customs of rather over £100, this brought in about £5 in customs revenue, barely sufficient to pay the wages of one of the Customs House waiters.

Derivatives

† custom-houser n. Obsolete a person whose job is to collect customs duties and prevent illegal or contraband goods from entering or leaving a country; = customs officer n. at custom n. and adj. Compounds 1d(b).

ΚΠ

1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. ii. 377 This of the Lyon gown, and caitiff of a Customhouser slapped on the face, her one adventure put on record for us!

1884 J. Millington in ‘A. de Florian’ Holy Blue! Introd. p. ix The hero and narrator is a ‘custom-houser’ (douanier) at Calais.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	custom house
释义	custom housen. Brit. /ˈkʌstəm haʊs/, U.S. /ˈkəstəm ˌhaʊs/ Forms: α. see custom n. and adj. and house n.¹ and int. β. 1900s– customs house. Also with capital initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: custom n., house n.¹ Etymology: In α. forms < custom n. + house n.¹ In β. forms < the plural of custom n. + house n.¹ 1. A building or office at a port of entry or border crossing where customs duties are levied and collected, and documents relating to such duties are processed; esp. a building at a port where customs duties are levied on goods for import or export and vessels are cleared for entering or leaving the country, often after inspection of their cargo for dutiable goods. Cf. custom n. 3c. Now historical, and preserved in the names of buildings formerly used for this purpose. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > customs house or tollbooth tollbooth13.. custom housea1400 toll-housec1440 dogana1605 douane1656 scale1682 excise-office1698 sayer choky1751 toll-shop1789 toll-office1841 chop-house1882 naka1984 α. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 5583 (MED) Pore men..rekened þe custome houses echoun, At whych þey had gode, and at whyche noun. 1480 W. Worcester in J. Nasmith Itineraria (1778) 167 Transeundo per le custom-hous usque per le condyt. 1538 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. ix. B He saw a man (Mathew by name) syttynge in the custome house. 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore sig. F3^v My men are all at Custome-house vnloding Wares. 1791 F. Grose Grumbler viii. 31 A set of men, who attend at the Custom-house, under the denomination of Damned Souls, in order, for a certain fee, to swear out any goods whatsoever for the merchants. 1810 R. Southey in Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1808 1 ii. p ii He..Swore no false oaths, except at the custom-house. 1860 Times 5 Jan. 10/2 Several meetings have been held at the Custom-house within the last fortnight for the formation of a corps of Rifle Volunteers. 1954 N.Y. Times 8 May 7/5 The Custom House, she said, was ‘bulging’ with such bulk mailings from countries behind the Iron Curtain. 2016 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 18 Mar. 17 The funds are part of more than £650,000 awarded to also help restore a 16th century harbour and old Custom House. β. 1784 New Ann. Reg. 1783 Foreign Lit. 283/1 Rates of Duties of all the Harbours and Customs-houses in the Russian empire.1812 tr. N.-J. Thiéry de Menonville Trav. Guaxaca in J. Pinkerton Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. XIII. 839 As soon as the horses arrived, I made all haste to the customs house to load my effects.1936 M. R. Anand Coolie iii. 163 There is some dutiable silk in it [sc. a bag] and we will slip by the customs house if I am not riding in a carriage.1993 Canad. Geographic Jan. 40/1 Ventin works out of a furnished post office and customs house just down the street. 2. With the: the government department or agency which levies and collects customs duties, and which controls the flow of goods into and out of a country; customs officers collectively; = custom n. 3b. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > with specific responsibility intelligence office1659 custom house1661 secret service1737 home department1782 home office1790 War Department1797 port authority1851 W.D.1855 welfare department1904 welfare1928 social services1968 1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 60 How much we have gotten by it, let the Custom-house and Exchange inform you. 1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 277. ¶3 Its Cargo was seized on by the Officers of the Custom-house. 1811 J. Black tr. A. von Humboldt Polit. Ess. New Spain IV. 93 At the entry of goods into the Spanish colonies, the custom-house exacts from the free effects, or produce of Spanish agriculture and manufactures 9½ per cent. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. iv. 90 Smoked his smuggled cigars under the very nose of the Custom House. 1870 Boston Daily Advertiser 4 Jan. Collector Casey has a plan for ‘reforming’ the New Orleans custom house by casting out the republicans. 1910 N.Y. Times 9 Mar. 9/1 It is thought that the Custom House will be through with its inspection and appraisement to-morrow. 1980 M. P. Rogin in Criminal Justice Hist. 1 193 Melville..retained his youthful image of the Custom House as strict moral authority. 2012 N. C. Luận Nationalist in Viet Nam Wars ii. 21 Hiding rudimentary distilling tools on someone's private land and then reporting it to the French customs house was one way to bring trouble to one's enemy. Compounds C1. a. General attributive, as custom house duty, custom house man, custom house station, etc. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. v. 13 It should be sufficient for him to Register an invoice of his Cargazon in the Custom-House Book. 1660 T. Watson Beatitudes 467 He was a Custome-house man. 1771 R. Cumberland West Indian i. v. 7 The whole tribe of custom-house extortioners, boat-men, tide-waiters and water-bailiffs. 1832 Mirror of Parl. (2nd Sess., 10th Parl.) 4 3416/1 The petition..for the repeal of the Customs-house duty on licences for boats employed in the fishing-trade. 1838 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 8 37 At 16m. [along the road,] Ráhdárí, or Custom-house station. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 8/2 The Custom House authorities have given notice that on and after October 1 their officers will have instructions to weigh and tare packages of tea to the half-pound. 1931 A. P. Wadsworth & J. De Lacy Mann Cotton Trade & Industr. Lancs. 151 The bejutapauts, negannepauts, nicconees,..and more than twenty other varieties mentioned in the Custom House Accounts were all coarse cottons in different colours. 1985 Times of India 28 Feb. 11/1 (heading) Customs house men end strike. 2003 J. Bannister Rule of Admirals iv. 129 In 1772, for example, local merchants refused to pay the customs house fees at St. John's. b. attributive. Designating a vessel used by customs authorities to patrol the coast and prevent smuggling, as custom house boat, custom house cutter, etc. Cf. revenue n. Compounds 1b. Now historical. ΚΠ 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. iv. 199 Several of the Custom-House Boats came on Board of us, to take in all the Passengers and their Goods. 1776 T. Aram Hist. Thomas Aram 62 The custom-house vessel was at this time repairing at Lymington. 1856 Househ. Words 28 June 553/1 It was impossible..to dismiss the Custom-house cutter, because the shadow of her topmast fell upon my paper. 1908 Corr. Wrongs done to Amer. Citizens by Govt. Venezuela 370 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (60th Congr., 1st Sess.: Senate Doc. 413) XXIV We immediately went to the anchorage indicated, the customs officer returning to the shore with the customs-house boat. 2008 M. Cox Glass of Time xv. 239 This party was quickly followed by the Customs House boat. C2. custom house broker n. a broker who assists and represents importers or (now less commonly) exporters, typically businesses, in transactions or dealings with customs authorities; = customs broker n. at custom n. and adj. Compounds 1d(b). ΚΠ 1815 Morning Post 6 Dec. He became acquainted with the Defendant, a Custom-house Broker, whom he employed. 1932 Columbia Law Rev. 32 900 Appellee, an importer, made a contract with a customs house broker whereby..the broker agreed to file and prosecute a claim for a refund of excessive customs duties. 1985 N. Pileggi Wiseguy 97 Space in the buildings was leased to twenty-eight airlines, air express agencies, customhouse brokers, federal inspection services, and carting companies. 2000 L. A. DiMatteo Law Internat. Contracting iv. 77 Following payment, the importer may instruct the bank to forward the documents to a customs house broker. custom house oath n. now historical a declaration of dutiable goods made on oath to customs authorities by a merchant or trader; (in extended use and in figurative contexts) a false oath, a lie, a deception. ΚΠ 1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 5 They take a great Liberty in their Custom-house Oaths. c1695 England's Appeal High Court Parl. 2 False Swearing them out of their Lives is grown a Crime no less common, than notorious, as customary, as if it were a Custom-house Oath, or Entry. 1779 Hist. War in Amer. between Great Brit. & her Colonies 5 The commanders..were ordered to..take the usual Custom-house oaths, and observe the Custom-house regulations. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiii. 228 The modes of initiation are more damaging than custom-house oaths. 1961 William & Mary Q. 18 220 His avowal..may be taken as the equivalent of a customs-house oath, for while it did not quite fit the facts, it saved his principals from embarrassing scrutiny. 2000 Stud. Romanticism 39 601 He objects first to the Scottish jurist Lord Kames's defense of dishonesty in the case of the custom-house oath. custom house officer n. now historical a person whose job is to collect customs duties and prevent illegal or contraband goods from entering or leaving a country; = customs officer n. at custom n. and adj. Compounds 1d(b). ΚΠ 1654 S. E. Toutch-stone Mony & Commerce 21 Some of them by report using to carry it for Holland, being never visited [by] the Custom-house Officers. 1733 in Statutes at Large (1811) IX. 311 The Ship or Vessel wherein they shall be imported..may be seized by..any Customs House Officer. 1880 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 30 Apr. 1903/2 It [sc. the port and city of Nanaimo] had only one Customs-house officer, when it was fairly entitled to two or three. 1912 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 82 A bustling German customs house officer clambered aboard and we went through the formalities of civilized travel. 2004 Bristol Post (Nexis) 14 Sept. 41 They started to throw stones at the windows and matters would have got out of hand, save for the fact that some of the servants and the Custom House officers made a counter attack. custom house official n. a person whose job is to collect customs duties and prevent illegal or contraband goods from entering or leaving a country; = customs official n. at custom n. and adj. Compounds 1d(b).In quot. 1831 as a humorous name for the Globe newspaper, published in Washington, D.C. ΚΠ 1831 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 30 Aug. A Custom House Officer has written a letter to the Custom House Official (the Globe!) stating that the opposition of the Editor of this paper to Gen. Jackson is mercenary. 1837 Foreign Q. Rev. Jan. 300 The revenue arising from imported goods could not possibly cover the expense of the frontier guards and custom-house officials. 1868 Birmingham Daily Post 7 Aug. 2/5 Last year's report, just issued by the Customs House officials, is as prosy a document as can be. 1925 E. M. Brent-Dyer School at Chalet iii. 31 The custom-house official grunted as he chalked the mark on the three suit-cases. 2015 Irish Times (Nexis) 23 Feb. 6 Some of the work may be done by Custom House officials. custom house waiter n. now historical and rare a customs officer who watches out for and inspects newly arrived ships in order to ensure that any customs duties due on imported goods are payed; = tide-waiter n. 1. ΚΠ 1649 M. Nedham Most Pithy Exhort. 2 The Custom-house-waiters have wink'd at many of their pretty passages between ship and shore. 1768 in Hist. Essex County, Mass. (1888) I. 94/1 A Custom House waiter, on Wednesday last, by informing an officer of the Customs that some measures were taken on board a vessel in this Harbor.., engaged the attention of a number of the inhabitants. 1831 tr. in App. Rep. Affairs E. India Company II. 5 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 320B) VI. 1 The native salt Merchants, Hong Merchants, custom-house waiters and interpreters, are all seen in chairs when they please. 1992 J. Youings & P. W. Cornford in M. Duffy New Maritime Hist. Devon I. xi. 102 At a total valuation for customs of rather over £100, this brought in about £5 in customs revenue, barely sufficient to pay the wages of one of the Customs House waiters. Derivatives † custom-houser n. Obsolete a person whose job is to collect customs duties and prevent illegal or contraband goods from entering or leaving a country; = customs officer n. at custom n. and adj. Compounds 1d(b). ΚΠ 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. ii. 377 This of the Lyon gown, and caitiff of a Customhouser slapped on the face, her one adventure put on record for us! 1884 J. Millington in ‘A. de Florian’ Holy Blue! Introd. p. ix The hero and narrator is a ‘custom-houser’ (douanier) at Calais. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1400
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