Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
TALLIAGE
Tal"lage, Tal"li*age, n. Etym: [F. taillage. See Taille, and cf. Tailage.] (O. Eng. Law)
Definition: A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also tailage, taillage.]
Note: When paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage; when by cities and burghs, tallage; when upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage. Blackstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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