Usually means: Tax on goods entering city.
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  1. octroi: Merriam-Webster
  2. octroi: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. octroi: Collins English Dictionary
  4. octroi: Vocabulary.com
  5. Octroi, octroi: Wordnik
  6. octroi: Wiktionary
  7. octroi: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. octroi: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Octroi, octroi: Dictionary.com
  10. Octroi: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Octroi: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. octroi: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. octroi: Rhymezone
  14. Octroi: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. octroi: FreeDictionary.org
  16. octroi: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. octroi: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. octroi: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (octroi)

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

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