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A fifteenth part; esp. in English History. A tax of one-fifteenth formerly imposed on personal property.
A tax or duty of a fifteenth. historical in later use.
A tax of a fifteenth; = quinzième, n. 2.
English History. = fifteenth, adj. 1. Obsolete.