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countable and uncountable, plural tailles
(historical) A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France. quotations
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 [...].
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 143
(music, obsolete) The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola.