gabelle
English
Noun
(en noun )
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 , , 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 […].
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gayelle
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun )
(Caribbean, chiefly, Trinidad and Tobago) An informal stage or arena, as for cock-fighting or stick-fighting.
* 1975 , Quincy Troupe, Rainer Schulte, Giant talk: an anthology of Third World writings , link
- And that time Bolo is coming through the village to the gayelle …
* 1997 , Earl Lovelace, The Schoolmaster , page 21
- I who have the best gamecocks from here to Maraval, and win twenty-nine battles with Hawk alone before they poison him near the gayelle in Valencia when we went to fight.
* 2004 , Milla Cozart Riggio, Carnival: culture in action : the Trinidad experience , page 293
- Stickfighters usually frequent a particular gayelle , which may have a recognized champion.
Etymology 2
(gay) + (etyl) elle she.
Noun
(en noun )
(neologism) A lesbian
* 2008 , The Daily Telegraph, Lesbians turn “gayelle” , link
- “By choosing gayelle , the feminine factors in “the equation of who is gay and who is not” can reassert their interest in the word gay, as well as, assert a displeasure for the word lesbian,” the website reads.
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