The trade fairs, like the Pitti Uomo men's event this week, are held in a cluster of ancient fortress buildings with red tile roofs, octagonal rotundas and vast "dogana," or customs centers. ❋ By SUZY MENKES (2011)
Our lorries have been held up at Ventimiglia, where a ‘dogana’ has been erected by the Fascist government in Rome, a barrier has been put across the track, and payments have been demanded in the name of the King of ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Another European form, older than divan, and app. directly from Arabic, is It. dovana, doana, now dogana, F. douane in 15th c. douwaine, custom-house: see DOUANE.For a more discursive collection of definitions, with 19th-century stabs at etymology, see the Hobson-Jobson entry. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Having given our names at the gate, we repaired to the dogana, or custom-house, where our trunks and carriage were searched; and here we were surrounded by a number of servitori de piazza, offering their services with the most disagreeable importunity. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Travelling in Italy in those days was fraught with many annoyances, for, in addition to the slow progress made in the vetture, there seems to have been (judging from the journal) a dogana, or custom-house, every few miles, where the luggage and clothing of travellers were examined, sometimes hastily and courteously, sometimes with more rigor. ❋ Morse, Samuel F B (1914)
After coffee we were obliged to go to the dogana to see to the searching of all our trunks and luggage. ❋ Morse, Samuel F B (1914)
The shore was deserted save for myself and a portly dogana-official who was playing with his little son -- trying to amuse him by elephantine gambols on the sand, regardless of his uniform and manly dignity. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
The admiral shook it somewhat doubtfully, tipped his cap, and went hurriedly back to the _dogana_, or custom-house. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)
I will tell the officers of the _dogana_ at Ventimiglia a good story -- trust me! ❋ William Le Queux (1895)
Had they at the _dogana_ discovered the trick and telephoned from the frontier? ❋ William Le Queux (1895)
Difficulties of all kinds had to be overcome from the dogana. ❋ Rossetti, Lucy M (1890)
The crowd and I followed to the _dogana_, close by, where as vigorous a search was made as I have ever had to undergo. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
Acquapendente, for the transaction of passport and dogana work. ❋ Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1851)
How long this might have lasted I know not, had not a person in the dogana, compassionating my dullness, stepped up to me, and whispered into my ear to give the searcher a few paulos. ❋ James Aitken Wylie (1849)
At length this most affable of dogana-masters drew up to me, and in a quiet way, as if wishing to conceal the interest he felt in me, he shook me warmly by the hand. ❋ James Aitken Wylie (1849)
After coffee we were obliged to go to the _dogana_ to see to the searching of all our trunks and luggage. ❋ Unknown (1831)
Travelling in Italy in those days was fraught with many annoyances, for, in addition to the slow progress made in the _vetture_, there seems to have been (judging from the journal) a _dogana_, or custom-house, every few miles, where the luggage and clothing of travellers were examined, sometimes hastily and courteously, sometimes with more rigor. ❋ Unknown (1831)
The _dogana_, an important duty levied on the flocks of the Capitanate, was to be collected by the officers of the Spanish government, and divided equally with France. ❋ William Hickling Prescott (1827)
Salabaetto had at the dogana entered in his name; they then had the script and counterscript made out, and, the arrangement thus concluded, went about their respective affairs. ❋ Giovanni Boccaccio (1344)
