Pronunciations
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/ɡaˈbɛl/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
Noun
A tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.
- Examples
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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.
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 […]