All 3 Uses of
contraband
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "Why," replied he, "I think it just possible Dantes may have been detected with some trifling article on board ship considered here as contraband."†
Chpt 5-6 *
- 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.†
Chpt 22-23
- 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.†
Chpt 39-40
Definition:
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(contraband) goods that are transported or sold illegally