uncustomed
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uncustomed (not comparable)
- Not subject to customs duties; uncustomable. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (archaic) On which no customs duties have been paid.
- 1548, Edward Hall, “The triumphaunt reigne of Kyng Henry the .VIII.”, in The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke[1], London: Richard Grafton, page lxv:
- […] with them came a great numbre of rascal & pedlers, & Iuellers, and brought ouer hattes and cappes, and diuerse merchaundise vncustomed, all vnder the coloure of the trussery of the Ambassadours.
- 1630, Giovanni Botero, translated by Robert Johnson, Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world[2], London: John Haviland, page 102:
- In the Duchie of Millan, the Governour is very politike and severe, in searching after bookes and uncustomed wares, though it tend but to a paire of stockings […]
- 1760, Tobias Smollett, Continuation of the Complete History of England, London: Richard Baldwin, Volume 3, p. 331,[3]
- […] a bill was prepared […] importing a continuation of several laws, namely, the several clauses mentioned of the acts in the fifth and eighth of king George I. against the clandestine running of uncustomed goods […]
- 1845, George Payne Rainsford James, chapter 7, in The Smuggler[4], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, page 159:
- Every uncustomed spirit, every prohibited ware, physical and intellectual, there finds its mart; and the chief art that is practised is to cheat as cleverly as may be—the chief science learned, is how to defraud without being detected.