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tal qual, advb. phr. Newfoundland.|tæl kwæl|
Also talqual.
[Shortened from L. talis qualis such as, of which sort or quality.]
‘Just as they come’: used with reference to fish sold without sorting.
1732in Calendar State Papers, Amer. & W. Indies (1939) 282 And by carrying a mixt cargoe which is all sold at markett for marchantable fish, when it's only (what in the stile of the fisherman is called Tal Qual) to the shoarmen. c1894in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 557/1 Tal qual, sometimes called all qualls, fish bought without culling is clearly the Latin talis qualis, ‘such as it is’. 1928in Ibid. 557/1 [He] said that tal qual fish was $8.20. 1930W. F. Coaker Hist. Fishermen's Protective Union of Newfoundland 30 Fish would not have advanced beyond $5.30 taqual [sic] this season if the F.P.U. did not exist. 1934Rep. Newfoundland R. Comm. 105 in Parl. Papers 1933–4 (Cd. 4480) XIV. 357 During the war years, quantity rather than quality became the ruling consideration; the ‘cull’ was therefore dispensed with and fish were bought on what is known as the ‘talqual’ system, viz., an average price was fixed for the whole of a fisherman's catch without any exact regard to the varying qualities of the fish comprising the catch. |