[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

taille \taille\, n. f. see tally, tailor.
   1. a tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. obs.
      1913 webster

            whether that he paid or took by taille. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   2. o. f. law any imposition levied by the king, or any
      other lord, upon his subjects.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

   3. mus. the french name for the tenor voice or part; also,
      for the tenor viol or viola.
      1913 webster
see also:
tally tailor 

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