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Gabelle vs Gayelle - What's the difference?

gabelle | gayelle |

As a noun gabelle

is a tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-revolutionary france.

As a proper noun gayelle is

(female).

gabelle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 , , 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 [...].
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    gayelle

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Caribbean, chiefly, Trinidad and Tobago) An informal stage or arena, as for cock-fighting or stick-fighting.
  • * 1975 , Quincy Troupe, Rainer Schulte, Giant talk: an anthology of Third World writings , link
    • And that time Bolo is coming through the village to the gayelle ...
  • * 1997 , Earl Lovelace, The Schoolmaster , page 21
    • I who have the best gamecocks from here to Maraval, and win twenty-nine battles with Hawk alone before they poison him near the gayelle in Valencia when we went to fight.
  • * 2004 , Milla Cozart Riggio, Carnival: culture in action : the Trinidad experience , page 293
    • Stickfighters usually frequent a particular gayelle , which may have a recognized champion.

    Etymology 2

    (gay) + (etyl) elle she.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (neologism) A lesbian
  • * 2008 , The Daily Telegraph, Lesbians turn "gayelle" , link
    • "By choosing gayelle , the feminine factors in “the equation of who is gay and who is not” can reassert their interest in the word gay, as well as, assert a displeasure for the word lesbian," the website reads.