tallage en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈtælɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin tālea Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin tāliō Old French taillier French tailler French taillageder. Middle English tallage English tallage Inherited from Middle English tallage. From French taillage, from tailler (“to cut”).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) An impost.
‘For what cess or tallage comes these bandogs to Fitz Peascod Castle?’
1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 93:
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(UK, countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses.
The land tax, in its modern shape, has superseded all the former methods of rating either property, or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenths or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hidages, scutages, or tallages
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| taliage | alternative | lexicographic | |
| taillage | alternative | lexicographic | |
| tallages | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| talliage | alternative | lexicographic | |
| tailage | alternative | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
la tallagium (medieval tax)