gabelle
See also: gabélle
English
Etymology
From French gabelle.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɡaˈbɛl/
Noun
gabelle (plural gabelles)
- 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, Colin Jones, 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 […]
- 1998, William Caferro, Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena, p. 150:
Anagrams
- gelable, legable
French
Etymology
From Italian gabella, from Arabic قَبَالَة (qabāla, “bail, guaranty”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡa.bɛl/
Audio (file)
Noun
gabelle f (plural gabelles)
- (historical) gabelle, salt tax
Further reading
- “gabelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaˈbɛl.le/
- Rhymes: -ɛlle
- Hyphenation: ga‧bèl‧le
Noun
gabelle f
- plural of gabella
Anagrams
- gellabe