"taille" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Dutch]

IPA: /ˈtɑ.jə/ Audio: Nl-taille.ogg Forms: tailles [plural], tailletje [diminutive, neuter]
Etymology: Borrowed from French taille, from Latin talea. Etymology templates: {{bor|nl|fr|taille}} French taille, {{der|nl|la|talea}} Latin talea Head templates: {{nl-noun|f|-s|tailletje}} taille f (plural tailles, diminutive tailletje n)
  1. waistline Tags: feminine Derived forms: wespentaille
    Sense id: en-taille-nl-noun-G0ZOa0kG Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header

Noun [English]

IPA: /taɪ/ Audio: en-us-Thai.ogg [US] Forms: tailles [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪ Etymology: From Middle French taille (“cut”, noun). Doublet of talea and tally. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|taille||cut|pos=n}} Middle French taille (“cut”, noun), {{doublet|en|talea|tally}} Doublet of talea and tally Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} taille (countable and uncountable, plural tailles)
  1. (historical) A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France. Tags: countable, historical, uncountable
    Sense id: en-taille-en-noun-eARr-LRf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31
  2. (music, obsolete) The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-taille-en-noun-FD6voHYD Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: tallage (english: a tax)

Noun [French]

IPA: /taj/, /tɑj/ Audio: Fr-taille.ogg Forms: tailles [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old French taille, from Latin talea (“a cutting”). Compare Italian taglia, Catalan talla. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|taille|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French taille, {{inh+|fr|fro|taille}} Inherited from Old French taille, {{inh|fr|la|talea||a cutting}} Latin talea (“a cutting”), {{cog|it|taglia}} Italian taglia, {{cog|ca|talla}} Catalan talla Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} taille f (plural tailles)
  1. the act of cutting, pruning, trimming Tags: feminine Synonyms: coupe
    Sense id: en-taille-fr-noun-N~DQY~hC
  2. size Tags: feminine Synonyms: grandeur, gabarit
    Sense id: en-taille-fr-noun-zNy-hG89
  3. waist Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-taille-fr-noun-bCRWuZub Disambiguation of Anatomy: 7 4 66 4 19
  4. waistline Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-taille-fr-noun-G0ZOa0kG
  5. a direct tax levied during the Ancien Régime; tallage Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-taille-fr-noun-gdfTNJ3z Categories (other): Old French entries with incorrect language header, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old French entries with incorrect language header: 12 19 4 3 0 1 0 32 9 2 2 0 12 3 2 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 8 1 2 1 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: de taille, pierre de taille, taillable, taille de guêpe, tour de taille Related terms: tailler

Noun [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} taille
  1. Alternative form of tayl Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: tayl
    Sense id: en-taille-enm-noun-4PnF5gno Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Old French]

Forms: taille oblique singular or [canonical, feminine], tailles [oblique, plural], taille [nominative, singular], tailles [nominative, plural]
Etymology: From Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Etymology templates: {{inh|fro|la|tālea||a cutting}} Latin tālea (“a cutting”) Head templates: {{fro-noun|f}} taille oblique singular, f (oblique plural tailles, nominative singular taille, nominative plural tailles)
  1. cut (act; instance of cutting)
    Sense id: en-taille-fro-noun-4ihxtvbn
  2. cut; wound; incision (result of being cut)
    Sense id: en-taille-fro-noun-H183yMQO
  3. cut (of clothing)
    Sense id: en-taille-fro-noun-jDAtGgC9
  4. a count kept by carving notches into a stick
    Sense id: en-taille-fro-noun-90wTxU2K
  5. (by extension) a count; a tally Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-taille-fro-noun-ymFL0ICr
  6. charge; levy; taxation; tax
    Sense id: en-taille-fro-noun-Ig6YQI5l
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tallie [Anglo-Norman, rare]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "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",
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        {
          "english": "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 […]",
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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[…]",
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          "tallage"
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