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Definitions
A tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.
Word origin
Borrowed from French gabelle.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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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