Maille vs Taille - What's the difference?
maille | taille |
(historical) A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 143:
(obsolete) A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.
* Chaucer
(music, obsolete) The tenor voice or part.
(music, obsolete) The part for the tenor viol or viola.
As nouns the difference between maille and taille
is that maille is alternative form of mail while taille is a form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.taille
English
(wikipedia taille)Noun
(-)- The main royal tax was the taille'' , a tax on landed wealth, distributed among the ''généralités and assessed and levied in a variety of ways, and it was supplemented by a range of other direct taxes [...].
- Whether that he paid or took by taille .