Crossword-Solution: OCTROI
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Octroi | n. | A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession. |
| Octroi | n. | A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OCTROI | anagram | ORTICO |
We have 10 clues for the answer “OCTROI”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Duty levied on goods entering a town | 1 answer |
| European tax | 1 answer |
| FRENCH inland tariff, former | 1 answer |
| FRENCH tariff, former | 1 answer |
| French tax station on the edge of a town. | 1 answer |
| Old import tax | 1 answer |
| Sovereign concession | 1 answer |
| Tax collected by French towns. | 1 answer |
| Tax official in France. | 1 answer |
| duty on various goods brought into certain European towns | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
NVEDII
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with OCTROI (5)
The abattoirs are all within the walls of Paris, with an eye to the receipt of the octroi duty; but, they stand in open places in the suburbs, removed from the press and bustle of the city.
The unfortunate householder, for example, who is persuaded to keep walking in the conservatory "pour retablir la circulation," and the other who describes himself "sous-chef de bureau dans l'enregistrement," and he who proposes to "faire hommage" of a doubtful turbot to the neighbouring "employe de l'octroi"--these and all their like speak commonplaces so usual as to lose in their own country the perfection of their dulness.
Thus loaded up I left Paris by the Vincennes gate, and drove as far as Bagnolet, where there is no road except past the octroi, where the officials might have proved unpleasant.
Here it pays an octroi[5238] of forty-seven francs per hogshead.--Entering Paris it goes into the tapster's or innkeeper's cellar where it again pays from thirty to forty francs for the duty on selling it at retail; at Rethel the duty is from fifty to sixty francs per puncheon, Rheims gauge.--The total is exorbitant.
Down with the octroi!--barriers are demolished, clerks are beaten, money is wanting in the towns for urgent expenses.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1956–1998).