See also: Taille, taillé, and táille

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Borrowed from Middle French taille (cut, noun). Doublet of tally.

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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, published 2003, page 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. (baroque music jargon) The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola
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Etymology

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Borrowed from French taille.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑ.jə/
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  • Hyphenation: tail‧le

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taille f (plural tailles, diminutive tailletje n)

  1. waistline

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French taille, deverbal of Old French taillier (to cut). Compare Italian taglia, Catalan talla.

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taille f (plural tailles)

  1. the act of cutting, pruning, trimming
    Synonym: coupe
  2. size
    Synonyms: grandeur, gabarit
  3. waist
    • 2005, Marc-André Wagner, Le cheval dans les croyances germaniques: paganisme, christianisme et traditions [The Horse in Germanic Beliefs: Paganism, Christianity, and Traditions], Honoré Champion, →ISBN:
      Le dernier type est le "cheval-jupon", un terme que l'ethnologue réserve à un déguisement pour une personne, constitué comme suit : le corps de la personne est entouré à la taille par un tissu — le jupon — recouvrant l'essentiel de ses jambes, une tête du cheval en bois []
      The last type is the "hobby horse", a term which Ethnologue reserves for a disguise for a person, made as follows: the body of the person is surrounded at the waist by a cloth — the skirt — covering most of his legs; a horse's head of wood []
  4. waistline
  5. a direct tax levied during the Ancien Régime; tallage
  6. (baroque music jargon) The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola

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  • Danish: talje
  • Dutch: taille
  • Russian: та́лия (tálija)
  • Spanish: talla

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Middle English

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Noun

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taille

  1. Alternative form of tayl

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Etymology

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Deverbal from taillier (to cut).

Noun

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taille oblique singularf (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

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