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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɡaˈbɛl/
• 韻: -ɛl

名詞

gabelle (plural gabelles)

1. A tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.
   • 1998, William Caferro, Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena, page 150:

     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.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 143:

     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 […]

アナグラム

• gelable, legable