taille

noun, plural tailles [teylz; French tah-yuh] /teɪlz; French ˈtɑ yə/.

1. French History. a tax that was levied by a king or seigneur on his subjects or on lands held under him and that became solely a royal tax in the 15th century from which the lords and later the clergy were exempt.
2. (in dressmaking) the waist or bodice of a garment.
3. Obsolete. the shape of one’s body from shoulders to waist; figure; build.

noun plural tailles (taɪ, taɪz, French tɑj)

1. (in France before 1789) a tax levied by a king or overlord on his subjects