Definitions for gabelles

gabelles ga·belle

Spelling: [guh-bel]
IPA: /gəˈbɛl/

Gabelles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 210 anagrams from letters in gabelles (abeeglls).

Definitions for gabelles

noun

  1. a tax; excise.
  2. French History. a tax on salt, abolished in 1790.

Origin of gabelles

1375-1425; Middle English gabul, gabel (probably confused with gavel2) Middle French Italian gabella Arabic gabālah tax, receipt

Examples for gabelles

Some provinces are allowed to compound for the gabelle, or salt tax; others are exempted from it altogether.

The gabelle, which led to several rebellions, was not abolished until the Revolution .

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.

They tell me to make haste and obtain the payments from the 'Camera' (council), and the 'gabelle' (octroi).

In the 17th century it was the centre of the revolt of the Nu-pieds, caused by the imposition of the salt-tax (gabelle).

He blamed himself, because he knew it was his fault that gabelle had been left so long in such a dangerous post.

Lastly, and more important than all, the duke made no attempt to revive the demand for the gabelle—salt was left free and untaxed.

gabelle, word of German origin (gabe), originally applied to all taxes, came to signify only the tax on salt.

Word Value for gabelles
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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