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Definition of taille in English: taillenoun tɑːjtajtāl 1(in France before 1789) a tax levied on the common people by the king or an overlord. Example sentencesExamples - As early as 1439 the nobility had given the king the right to maintain a standing army and to raise the taille which was a tax to pay for the army.
- The government restructured the tax base to place greater emphasis on indirect taxes (duties, tariffs, excise taxes, and state-owned monopolies over sales of salt and tobacco) rather than on the peasant-based taille.
- The common tax - the taille - was increased to finance French foreign policy and this was organised by the chancellor Antoine Duprat.
- Says Bloch: ‘Nobles need not pay taille.’
- Colbert was able, in his first decade, to get a grip on taxation and revenue, reduce the level of the taille by 20 per cent, cut the cost of servicing the debt and the costs of revenue farming.
- However, Louis would have considered this to be a good investment as a large army could be used to collect taxes even more effectively, especially when the King decided to raise the taille to add even more money to raise income.
- The main direct tax, the taille, was levied on persons in central provinces, but on land in peripheral ones like Languedoc.
- He abandoned the countryside above all to escape the taille, a tax to which, unlike the nobles, he would have been subject if he had continued to live in rural France.
- Receivers of direct taxes - taille, capitation, and vingtiemes - also profited from the fiscal system.
- The Valois ruler's centralization, with their tailles and standardization of language and arts, would lead to expensive voyages to prestatial America, where their influence remains today in Quebec and Louisiana.
- Although exempt from the usual head tax, or taille, religious communities were subject to a duty on property purchases known as the amortissement so as to compensate for the property's removal from the tax rolls.
- Both appear to have been financially respectable, but hardly wealthy, paying between 50 sous and three livres per year in tailles (after a fifty percent reduction for municipal service).
- Nevertheless, in most provinces, nobles continued to escape the oldest basic direct tax, the taille, not to mention forced labour on the roads.
- It ruled in 1786 that land near the chapel of Notre Dame de Vals belonging to the sieur Ranbaud, priest of Ginestas, a parish in the diocese of Narbonne, be exempt from the taille.
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historical The register of a tenor or similar voice, or an instrument of this register. Example sentencesExamples - There were two other forms of tenor: the taille, which probably looked like a large straight oboe with an angled brass crook, and the oboe da caccia, curved like the cor anglais but with a flared brass bell instead of the bulb.
3mass noun The juice produced from a second pressing of the grapes during winemaking. Example sentencesExamples - Juice from the second pressing - the Taille - is not used to make Champagne de Venoge.
- The different juices - the auto-pressing, the cuvée and the taille - are then collected and poured into either oak or cement measuring vats called 'belons'.
- Separating the juice as it leaves the press yields 20.5hl of 'cuvée' (the first pressing) and 5hl of 'taille' (the second pressing).
- 3.1 Low-quality wine made from a second pressing of the grapes.
Example sentencesExamples - "White Foil is composed of wines drawn only from the cuvee (the first, light pressing) and, where appropriate, the taille (second pressing), which provides a higher proportion of essential tannins.
- The taille, which is produced by the second pressing, is sold off.
Origin French, from Old French: see tail2. Definition of taille in US English: taillenountāl 1(in France before 1789) a tax levied on the common people by the king or an overlord. Example sentencesExamples - The government restructured the tax base to place greater emphasis on indirect taxes (duties, tariffs, excise taxes, and state-owned monopolies over sales of salt and tobacco) rather than on the peasant-based taille.
- Colbert was able, in his first decade, to get a grip on taxation and revenue, reduce the level of the taille by 20 per cent, cut the cost of servicing the debt and the costs of revenue farming.
- However, Louis would have considered this to be a good investment as a large army could be used to collect taxes even more effectively, especially when the King decided to raise the taille to add even more money to raise income.
- He abandoned the countryside above all to escape the taille, a tax to which, unlike the nobles, he would have been subject if he had continued to live in rural France.
- Receivers of direct taxes - taille, capitation, and vingtiemes - also profited from the fiscal system.
- Both appear to have been financially respectable, but hardly wealthy, paying between 50 sous and three livres per year in tailles (after a fifty percent reduction for municipal service).
- The main direct tax, the taille, was levied on persons in central provinces, but on land in peripheral ones like Languedoc.
- Nevertheless, in most provinces, nobles continued to escape the oldest basic direct tax, the taille, not to mention forced labour on the roads.
- It ruled in 1786 that land near the chapel of Notre Dame de Vals belonging to the sieur Ranbaud, priest of Ginestas, a parish in the diocese of Narbonne, be exempt from the taille.
- Says Bloch: ‘Nobles need not pay taille.’
- Although exempt from the usual head tax, or taille, religious communities were subject to a duty on property purchases known as the amortissement so as to compensate for the property's removal from the tax rolls.
- As early as 1439 the nobility had given the king the right to maintain a standing army and to raise the taille which was a tax to pay for the army.
- The Valois ruler's centralization, with their tailles and standardization of language and arts, would lead to expensive voyages to prestatial America, where their influence remains today in Quebec and Louisiana.
- The common tax - the taille - was increased to finance French foreign policy and this was organised by the chancellor Antoine Duprat.
2The juice produced from a second pressing of the grapes during winemaking, generally considered inferior because it contains less sugar and more tannin and has lower acidity than the first pressing. Example sentencesExamples - Juice from the second pressing - the Taille - is not used to make Champagne de Venoge.
- Separating the juice as it leaves the press yields 20.5hl of 'cuvée' (the first pressing) and 5hl of 'taille' (the second pressing).
- The different juices - the auto-pressing, the cuvée and the taille - are then collected and poured into either oak or cement measuring vats called 'belons'.
- 2.1 Low-quality wine made from taille.
Example sentencesExamples - "White Foil is composed of wines drawn only from the cuvee (the first, light pressing) and, where appropriate, the taille (second pressing), which provides a higher proportion of essential tannins.
- The taille, which is produced by the second pressing, is sold off.
Origin French, from Old French: see tail. |