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See Taille

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taille

a form of direct taxation levied on the land of peasants in the France of the Ancien Régime

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Taille \Taille\, n. [F. See Tally, Tailor.]
1. A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. [Obs.]
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Whether that he paid or took by taille. --Chaucer.
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2. (O. F. Law) Any imposition levied by the king, or any
other lord, upon his subjects.
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The taille, as it still subsists in France, may
serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It
was a tax upon the profits of the farmer, which they
estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm.
--A. Smith.
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3. (Mus.) The French name for the tenor voice or part; also,
for the tenor viol or viola.
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