contraband
/ˈkɑn.tɹəˌbænd/ nom C1En français : contrebande
- Any goods which are illicit or illegal to possess.
- Goods which are prohibited from being traded, smuggled goods.
- A black slave during the American Civil War who had escaped to, or been captured by, Union forces.
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Dans la bibliothèque
“Why,” replied he, “I think it just possible Dantès may have been detected with some trifling article on board ship considered here as contraband.”
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.
In the meantime, my dear Lucien, here are cigars—contraband, of course—try them, and persuade the minister to sell us such instead of poisoning us with cabbage leaves.”
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