taille noun. [tɑ:j, ta:j] Pl. pronounced same. M16.
[French: see TAIL noun².]
1. In France, a tax levied on the common people. obsolete exc. Hist. M16.

2. Cut, shape, form; shape of the bust from the shoulders to the waist; figure, build. M17.

3. Music (now Hist.). The register of a tenor or similar voice; an instrument of this register. M19.

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