taille

plural tailles

1. countablehistoricaluncountableA form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.

   The main royal tax was the taille, a tax on landed wealth, distributed among the généralités and assessed and levied in a variety of ways, and it was supplemented by a range of other direct taxes [...].

   2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 143

2. countableuncountablebaroque music jargonThe tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola