excise
/ˈɛkˌsaɪz/ noun C2- A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
Plural excises
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He had scarcely been a week at Leghorn before the hold of his vessel was filled with printed muslins, contraband cottons, English powder, and tobacco on which the excise had forgotten to put its mark.
There they had a bit of a skirmish in getting rid of the duties; the excise was, in truth, the everlasting enemy of the patron of La Jeune Amélie.
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