octroi

IPA: ɑktrˈɔɪ

(historical) A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, such as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.
(historical) A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls.

Examples of "octroi" in Sentences

These market dues still survive in the "octroi" collected at the gates of some European cities.
They were at once presented with; the stamp-duty, registration, the lottery, the droits reunis, the tax on cards, and the 'octroi'.
They were at once presented with; the stamp - duty, registration, the lottery, the droits reunis, the tax on cards, and the 'octroi'.
For, while the pressure _per capita_ of the octroi is much greater than it was in 1870, the actual receipts from the _octroi_ were less with a population of
The Municipal Council is negotiating with the Credit Foncier for the erection of a certain number of cheap houses, which, for the space of twenty years, will be exempt from all taxes, such as octroi, highway, door and window tax, etc.
His education would have qualified him for any course of life; and he became an octroi-clerk -- [The octroi is the tax on provisions levied at the entrance of the town] -- in one of the little toll-houses at the entrance of his native town.
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.