| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| gabelle |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ga·belle |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  g -b l |
| NOUN: | A tax, especially the salt tax imposed in France before 1790. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English gabel, from Old French, from Old Italian gabella, from Arabic qab la, tribute, from qabila, to receive. See qbl in Appendix II.
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