TAILLES
Noun
tailles
plural of taille
Anagrams
• stellia, tallies
Source: Wiktionary
TAILLE
Taille, n. Etym: [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)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the
tenor viol or viola.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition