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English → English (gcide) Definition: Contraband of war Contraband \Con"tra*band\, n. [It. contrabando; contra + bando ban, proclamation: cf. F. contrebande. See Ban an edict.] 1. Illegal or prohibited traffic. [1913 Webster] Persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband, and the most interested in the seizures. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 2. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden. [1913 Webster] 3. A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] Contraband of war, that which, according to international law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved belligerent. --Wharton. [1913 Webster]