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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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"Taille" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Quoique," says Alfieri, speaking of his school-days, "je fusse le plus petit de tons les grands qui se trouvaient au second appartement ou j'etais descendu, e'etait precisement mon inferiorite de taille, d'age, et de force, qui me donnait plus de courage, et ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I. (of VI.) - With his Letters and Journals. • Thomas Moore

... since he has neither rank nor wealth, and the valet replies: "Point de bien! votre bonne mine est un Perou. Tournez-vous un peu, que je vous considere encore; allons, monsieur, vous vous moquez; il n'y a point de plus grand seigneur que vous a Paris; voila une taille qui vaut toutes les dignites possibles, et notre affaire est infaillible absolument infaillible." His genius for intrigue is certainly admirable, and, were that a sufficient claim for glory, we would chime in with him in his final cry ...

— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux