octroi

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

Borrowed from French octroi, from Middle French octroy, alteration of Old French otroi, from otroier (“to grant”), from Late Latin auctōrizāre.

The customs and the octroi, if there be any, have been avoided. — Dracula, Bram Stoker
Talleyrand. Sire! under all their governments the good people of Paris have submitted to the octroi. — Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection, Walter Savage Landor
Formerly, four or five gates were open, but the Rais has shut them all but this one for security, as well as facility in collecting the octroi, or gate-dues. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson

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