Taille

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A form of direct royal taxation that was levied in France before 1789 on nonprivileged subjects and lands and tended to weigh most heavily on the peasants.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.
  • n. A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.
  • n. The tenor voice or part.
  • n. The part for the tenor viol or viola.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.
  • n. Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects.
  • n. The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Also applied to the tenor voice and to the tenor species of wind-instruments: as, taille de basson, the tenor oboe or tenoroon.
  • n. A Middle English form of tail, 1.
  • n. Cut as to form or figure, especially with reference to proportionate stature; build; make: used of persons, but only as a French word.
  • n. In old French law, a tax, tailage, or subsidy; any imposition levied by the king or any other lord on his subjects.
  • n. In English law, the fee or holding which is opposite to fee simple.
  • n. In dressmaking: The waist or bodice of a gown.
  • n. The style or fit of the waist or bodice of a gown. [In both senses an adaptation of the French term.]
  • n. In music, same as viola.
  • In heraldry, party per bend sinister.
  • Word Usage
    "The wine calendar begins in December with pruning, la taille, which is carried out at intervals until March."
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