taille
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /tʌɪ/
taille
- (historical) A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 143:
- The main royal tax was the taille, a tax on landed wealth, distributed among the généralités and assessed and levied in a variety of ways, and it was supplemented by a range of other direct taxes [...].
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 143:
- (obsolete) A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.
- Whether that he paid or took by taille.
- (music, obsolete) The tenor voice or part.
- (music, obsolete) The part for the tenor viol or viola.
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