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Taille   Listen
noun
Taille  n.  
1.
A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. (Obs.) "Whether that he paid or took by taille."
2.
(O. F. Law) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects. "The taille, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm."
3.
(Mus.) The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.





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... action there is none, the stage stands still. If Jodelle's Didon has some literary merit, it has little dramatic vitality. The oratorical energy of Grevin's Jules Cesar, the studies of history in La Mort de Daire and La Mort d'Alexandre, by Jacques de La Taille, do not compensate their deficiency in the qualities required by the theatre. One tragedy alone, La Sultane, by Gabriel Bounin (1561), amid its violences and extravagances, shows a feeling for dramatic action ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden


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