1. Goods prohibited by law or treaty from being imported or exported. 2a. Illegal traffic in contraband; smuggling. b. Smuggled goods. 3. Goods that may be seized and confiscated by a belligerent if shipped to another belligerent by a neutral. 4. An escaped slave during the Civil War who fled to or was taken behind Union lines.
ADJECTIVE:
Prohibited from being imported or exported.
ETYMOLOGY:
Italian contrabbando : contra-, against (from Latin contr-; see contra–) + bando, legal proclamation (from Late Latin bannus, of Germanic origin; see bh-2 in Appendix I).
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