droit
a legal right or claim.
droits, Finance, Rare. customs duties.
Origin of droit
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How to use droit in a sentence
The amount of corn shipped was evidently small, the droits being insufficient to keep the pier in repair.
She had proclaimed no Déclaration européenne des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, as the French Revolution had ambitiously done.
Thomas Jefferson | Gilbert ChinardIn its chapel the Committee of the section des droits de lHomme sat in Revolution days.
Historic Paris | Jetta S. WolffThe stranger, named the Droits de l'Homme, was returning from Ireland, and heading east.
Types of Naval Officers | A. T. MahanThe Mémoires sur les droits et impositions en Europe, (cited by Smith,) was a scarce and excessively dear book.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson
British Dictionary definitions for droit
/ (drɔɪt, French drwa) /
a legal or moral right or claim; due
Origin of droit
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