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taille
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taille \Taille\, n. [F. See Tally, Tailor.]
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A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. [Obs.]
Whether that he paid or took by taille.
--Chaucer. -
(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.
--A. Smith. (Mus.) The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France. 2 (context obsolete English) A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. 3 (context music obsolete English) The tenor voice or part. 4 (context music obsolete English) The part for the tenor viol or viola.
Wikipedia
Taille was a land tax in Ancien Régime France.
Taille may also refer to:
- Lower-grade juice from the Pressing of grapes in Champagne production, while the best juice is called the cuvée
- taille, a name used in the Baroque era for an open belled variant of the Baroque Cor anglais
- The name used in France for the vocal timbre of the baritenore
The taille, also called the taille d'hautbois, was a Baroque tenor oboe pitched in F. It had a straight body, an open bell, and two keys.
The instrument was first used in Alcidiane by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1658. It was employed in several Bach cantatas.
Today, the taille is rare outside period ensembles, and a cor anglais is commonly substituted in performance.
The term was also later applied to any instrument that played the tenor part in an orchestra.
Usage examples of "taille".
Traversons la petite ville, ce sera fait en cinq minutes, et allons nous asseoir sous les grands arbres tailles en muraille du parc de Bizi.
En effet, elle etait en lambeaux, dechiree aux entournures et surtout a la taille par les doigts gros des danseurs.
In memory of her he has quartered his own arms with those of Des Touches, which are: party couped, tranche and taille or and sinople, on the latter two eagles argent.
Among those whom the Tailles had brought was a cousin of a certain age, a Monsieur Sauvetanin, a man given to philosophical reflections, serious, and always very self-possessed, and Madame Lamondois, an old aunt.
For wheither that he payde or took by taille, Algate he wayted so in his achaat That he was ay biforn, and in good staat.
The Ninth Book treateth of a knight named by Sir Kay Le Cote Male Taille, and also of Sir Tristram, and containeth xliv chapters.