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Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle French, from Old French, from taillier to cut, tax Date: circa 1533 a tax formerly levied by a French king or seigneur on his subjects or on lands held of him

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Taille Taille, n. [F. See Tally, Tailor.] 1. A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. [Obs.] Whether that he paid or took by taille. --Chaucer. 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. --A. Smith. 3. (Mus.) The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.