taille

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taille

/taɪ/

Sounds like tie, Ty, Thai · Rhymes with -aɪ

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

noun tailles

countable, historical, uncountable A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France. 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 [...].
countable, uncountable The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola

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@misc{taille_2026,
  title = {taille},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/taille},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}