Definitions for tailles

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tailles taille

Spelling: [teyl; French tah-yuh]

IPA: /teɪl; French ˈtɑ yə/

Tailles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in tailles (aeillst).

Definitions for tailles

noun

1. French History. a tax that was levied by a king or seigneur on his subjects or on lands held under him and that became solely a royal tax in the 15th century from which the lords and later the clergy were exempt.
2. (in dressmaking) the waist or bodice of a garment.
3. Obsolete. the shape of one's body from shoulders to waist; figure; build.

Origin of tailles

1545-55; French: literally, a cutting; see tail²

Examples for tailles

The plates for this process are the exact reverse of those engraved in taille douce.

This additional tax is rated upon all the different districts subject to the taille according to the old assessment.

It is also called by Bach, taille de basson, or tenor of the bassoon.

The taille, as it still subsists in France may serve as an example of those ancient tallages.

They want us to pay some of the taxes—the corvée or the taille.

Or parts are written for a viola and a taille (the tenor viol).

He substituted for personal service on the roads a yearly rate, proportional in amount to the taille.

He wanted to get rid of the “taille,” the “corve,” and twenty other imposts which robbed him of his last penny.

I will have a garment reach to my taille; Then am I a minion, for I wear the new guise.

And with all this the taille is exacted with military severity.