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Gazelle vs Gabelle - What's the difference?

gazelle | gabelle |

As nouns the difference between gazelle and gabelle

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

gazelle

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (archaic)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An antelope of either of the genera Gazella'' (mostly native to Africa) or ''Procapra (native to Asia), capable of running at high speeds for long periods.

    • Derived terms

    * Cuvier's gazelle * Dama gazelle * Dorcas gazelle * goitered gazelle * Grant's gazelle * Indian gazelle * Mongalla gazelle * Mongolian gazelle * mountain gazelle * Przewalski's gazelle * red-fronted gazelle * slender-horned gazelle * Soemmerring's gazelle * Speke's gazelle * Thomson's gazelle * Tibetan gazelle

    See also

    * (wikipedia) * (Gazella) ----

    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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