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Octroi   Listen
noun
Octroi  n.  
1.
A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.
2.
A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls. (Written also octroy)





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"Octroi" Quotes from Famous Books



... silent and forlorn under the gas-lamps. I hurried under railway bridges, and I saw in the distance great shunting-yards looking grim in their blue hazes of electric light. Then came the city barrier and the octroi, and still the street stretched in front of me, darker now, more mischievous, more obscure. I ...
— The Ghost - A Modern Fantasy • Arnold Bennett


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