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noun

Taille n.

A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. (Obs.) "Whether that he paid or took by taille."

(O. F. Law) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects. "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."

(Mus.) The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.

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... banalites—i.e., the right of requiring all tenants on his estates to grind their grain at his mill and to bake at his oven; he had corvees—the right to a certain amount of unpaid labor from his tenants; his land was exempt from the taille, the most burdensome of taxes; and he had many other and diverse seigneurial rights, often, indeed, more vexatious to the tenant than they were profitable to the seigneur. [Footnote: Rambaud, Hist. de la Civilisation Francaise, II., ...

— European Background Of American History - (Vol. I of The American Nation: A History) • Edward Potts Cheyney