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Colonial Dictionary

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Gabelle	A tax. Used in the 15th and 16th centuries as gabel, gable; related to gavel, q.v. The word was then forgotten; revived as a foreign word (French gabelle), referring to Italy and France; especially, the tax on salt in France before the French Revolution. Charles Dickens, in A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1859) calls the farmer-general (tax collector) M. Gabelle.

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Gabelle