taille

Meaning

  1. (countable, historical, uncountable) A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola

Translations

Pronounced as (IPA)
/taɪ/
Etymology

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

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