Definitions for "Taille"
The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.
The name of a dish, otherwise untranslatable. See the French Glossary under taille.
an older term for middle voice, usually performed by the viola. Bach may have intended this part to be performed by a tenor oboe, tuned like the oboe DA caccia or English horn.
main direct tax to the government from which the aristocracy and clergy were exempt in pre-Revolutionary France.
The taille was a direct land tax on the French peasantry and non-nobles in Ancien Régime France. The tax was imposed on each household and based on how much land it held.
Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects.
an arbitrary seigneurial levy on serfs