taille

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.

   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 [...].

2. 2
   noun

   The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola

Borrowed from Middle French taille (“cut”, noun). Doublet of tally.

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