"taille" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /taɪ/ Audio: en-us-Thai.ogg Forms: tailles [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪ Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French taille (“cut”, noun). Doublet of tally. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|frm|taille||cut|pos=n}} Borrowed from Middle French taille (“cut”, noun), {{doublet|en|tally}} Doublet of 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
  2. (baroque music jargon) The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-taille-en-noun-dlYr2y4y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 64 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 25 5 10 1 0 0 0 22 9 16 1 1 1 6 1 1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: tallage (english: a tax)

Inflected forms

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