Gabelle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 107 anagrams from letters in gabelle (abeegll).
1375-1425; Middle English gabul, gabel (probably confused with gavel2) Middle French Italian gabella Arabic gabālah tax, receipt
Some provinces are allowed to compound for the gabelle, or salt tax; others are exempted from it altogether.
gabelle, word of German origin (gabe), originally applied to all taxes, came to signify only the tax on salt.
These imposts and that of the gabelle were henceforth permanent.
By means of a draft on the receiver of taxes and the gabelle officer of the town, two hundred golden saluts were paid for it.
The Latin form of the word is gabellum, and the French gabelle.
He blamed himself, because he knew it was his fault that gabelle had been left so long in such a dangerous post.
They tell me to make haste and obtain the payments from the 'Camera' (council), and the 'gabelle' (octroi).
The gabelle, which led to several rebellions, was not abolished until the Revolution .
In the 17th century it was the centre of the revolt of the Nu-pieds, caused by the imposition of the salt-tax (gabelle).
Lastly, and more important than all, the duke made no attempt to revive the demand for the gabelle—salt was left free and untaxed.