gabelle
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Noun[edit]
gabelle (plural gabelles)
- A tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.
- 1998, William Caferro, Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena, p. 150:
- The proceeds of the gabelle on retail wine were pledged directly to repayment of the forced loans imposed during Baumgarten and Sterz's raid in 1364.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 143:
- Salt, for example, was a state monopoly, and the tax on it – the much-detested gabelle – was levied at six different levels in the various regions […]
- 1998, William Caferro, Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena, p. 150:
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian gabella, from Arabic قَبَالَة (qabāla, “bail, guaranty”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gabelle f (plural gabelles)
- (historical) gabelle, salt tax
Further reading[edit]
- “gabelle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
gabelle f
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