- 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.
- (in dressmaking) the waist or bodice of a garment.
- the shape of one's body from shoulders to waist; figure; build.
- (in France before 1789) a tax levied by a king or overlord on his subjects
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