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1. (n.) gabelle
a tax on salt levied in France, abolished in 1790.
Etymology: (1510–20; < MF gauvardine, gallevardine < Sp gabardina)
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1. (noun) gabelle
a tax, especially on salt
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1. gabelle
an indirect tax, specially one on salt, the term applied to a State monopoly in France in that article, and the exaction in connection with which was a source of much discontent; the people were obliged to purchase it at government warehouses and at extravagant, often very unequal, rates; the impost dates from 1286; was abolished in 1789.
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