Definition of "dogana" []

• A custom-house. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The trade fairs, like the Pitti Uomo men's event this week, are held in a cluster of ancient fortress buildings with red tile roofs, octagonal rotundas and vast "dogana," or customs centers."
• "Our lorries have been held up at Ventimiglia, where a ‘dogana’ has been erected by the Fascist government in Rome, a barrier has been put across the track, and payments have been demanded in the name of the King of"
• "Another European form, older than divan, and app. directly from Arabic, is It. dovana, doana, now dogana, F. douane in 15th c. douwaine, custom-house: see DOUANE.For a more discursive collection of definitions, with 19th-century stabs at etymology, see the Hobson-Jobson entry."