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▪ I. ‖ taille
[F. taille (formerly taː, taj, now tɑj) (12th c.) cut: see tail n.2]
1. Cut, shape, form; shape of the bust from the shoulders to the waist; figure, build, make. In Dress-making, the waist or bodice of a gown; the style or fit of this.
1663Pepys Diary 13 July, Mrs. Stewart,..with her sweet eye, little Roman nose, and excellent taille, is now the greatest beauty I ever saw. 1697Vanbrugh Relapse iv. vi, You would not think it impossible a person of a worse taille than mine might be a modern man of quality.
2. In old French law, a tax: see tail n.2 2 b.
3. Mus. (See quot. 1944.)
1842J. A. Hamilton Dict. Two Thousand Musica Terms 85 Taille (French), the tenor voice or part. 1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 420/1 Taille (Fr.), (1) the tenor voice or tenor part, (2) the tenor violin, the viola. 1889Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 52/2 The tenor violoncello clef was originally appropriated to the Taille. 1932C. S. Terry Bach's Orchestra v. 98 His players were certainly never provided with an instrument capable of sounding g, except the taille. 1944Harvard Dict. Mus. 731/2 Taille [F.], old name for a middle voice, particularly the tenor. The term was also used for instruments performing such parts, e.g., taille de basson, tenor oboe; taille de violon or simply taille, viola.
▪ II. taille
obs. f. tail, tale, tally. |