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taillie

taillie is the alternative form of tailzie.

Meaning of tailzie

Noun

tailzie (plural tailzies)

  1. (historical, Scots law) An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.

Forms of taillie

pluraltaillies

Questions about taillie

What is taillie the alternative form of?
Taillie is the alternative form of tailzie.

Words near taillie in the dictionary

  1. tailles
  2. tailless
  3. taillessness
  4. tailleur
  5. tailleurs
  6. taillie
  7. taillies
  8. taillight
  9. taillights
  10. taillike
  11. Taillon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: taillie (page history and authors); tailzie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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