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† gaˈbeller Obs.
Also in Fr. form gabellier.
[f. gabelle + -er1.]
A collector of the gabelle, a tax-gatherer.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 159 To bee thus dayly racked, fleyed and devoured, by so many pety tyrants as it were with their prolling Gabelliers. 1670Cotton Espernon iii. xi. 539 They drew up a List of above four hundred of the best Families of the City, under the Title of Gabellers. 1685J. Wright View Late Troub. Pref., To their tumultuous burning the gabeller's goods I think I may, not unaptly, compare our burning the pope. 1698R. Lassels Voy. Italy II. 182 He [Masaniello] commanded them to cast into the fire all the goods, papers, plate, beds, hangings, &c., of the Gabelliers. |