gabelle
See also: gabélle
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gabelle (plural gabelles)
- A tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.
- 1998, William Caferro, Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena, page 150:
- The proceeds of the gabelle on retail wine were pledged directly to repayment of the forced loans imposed during Baumgarten and Sterz's raid in 1364.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 143:
- Salt, for example, was a state monopoly, and the tax on it – the much-detested gabelle – was levied at six different levels in the various regions […]
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From Italian gabella, from Arabic قَبَالَة (qabāla, “bail, guaranty”).
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gabelle f (plural gabelles)
- (historical) gabelle, salt tax
Further reading edit
- “gabelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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gabelle f