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gabelle

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7 lettersPronunciation /ɡaˈbɛl/Sorted abeegllStarts with GEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. 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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