taille

From French taille (“cut”, noun).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʌɪ/

taille (countable and uncountable, plural tailles)

1. (historical) A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 143:

     The main royal tax was the taille, a tax on landed wealth, distributed among the généralités and assessed and levied in a variety of ways, and it was supplemented by a range of other direct taxes [...].

2. (obsolete) A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.
   • Chaucer

     Whether that he paid or took by taille.

3. (music, obsolete) The tenor voice or part.
4. (music, obsolete) The part for the tenor viol or viola.

• tallage (“a tax”)

• tallie

From French taille.

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taille f or m (plural tailles, diminutive tailletje n)

1. waistline

From tailler (“to cut”, verb), from Latin talea (“a cutting”). Compare Italian taglia.

• IPA^(key): /taj/

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taille f (plural tailles)

1. the act of cutting, pruning, trimming

   Synonym: coupe

2. size

   Synonyms: grandeur, gabarit

3. waist
4. waistline
5. a direct tax levied during the Ancien Régime; tallage

• taillable
• taille de guêpe

• tailler

• “taille” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

taille

1. Alternative form of tayl

Deverbal of taillier.

taille f (oblique plural tailles, nominative singular taille, nominative plural tailles)

1. cut (act; instance of cutting)
2. cut; wound; incision (result of being cut)
3. cut (of clothing)
4. a count kept by carving notches into a stick
5. (by extension) a count; a tally
6. charge; levy; taxation; tax

• English: tally (borrowed)
• French: taille
  • English: taille (borrowed)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (taille, supplement)
• taille on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub