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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 661 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ENTREPOT (a See also:French word, from the See also:Lat. interpositum, that which is placed between)  , a storehouse or See also:magazine for the temporary storage of goods, provisions, &c.; also a See also:place where goods, which are not allowed to pass into a See also:country See also:duty See also:free, are stored under the superintendence of the See also:custom See also:house authorities till they are re-exported . In a looser sense, any See also:town which has a considerable distributive See also:trade is called an See also:entrepot . The word is also used attributively to indicate the See also:kind of trade carried on in such towns .

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