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gabelles

gabelles is the plural of gabelle.

Meaning of gabelle

Noun

gabelle (plural gabelles)

  1. A tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.
    • 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 1364.1998, William Caferro, Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena, page 150

Questions about gabelles

What is gabelles the plural of?
Gabelles is the plural of gabelle.

Words near gabelles in the dictionary

  1. gabelers
  2. gabelle
  3. gabelled
  4. gabeller
  5. gabellers
  6. gabelles
  7. gabels
  8. Gabelsberger
  9. gabelzhan
  10. Gaber
  11. gaberdine

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