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French feudal tax
Answer for the clue "French feudal tax ", 6 letters:
taille
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taille \Taille\, n. [F. See Tally , Tailor .] 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 ...
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.