| 释义 |
ˈhearth-tax
= hearth-money 2.
1689Evelyn Diary 8 Mar., In the mean time to gratify the people, the Hearth Tax was remitted for ever. 1807–8Syd. Smith Plymley's Lett. Wks. 1859 II. 140/2 Ireland does not contain at this moment less than five millions of people. There were returned in the year 1791 to the hearth tax 701,000 houses. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) II. 405 A hearth-tax, or duty proportioned to the number of fire-places in a house, was established in this country [England] at a very early period. |