α. 1600s 2000s gabelier Brit. /ɡəˈbɛlɪeɪ/, U.S. /ɡəˈbɛlˌjeɪ/, 1500s–1600s 1800s gabellier.
β. 1600s–1900s gabeller, 1800s–1900s gabeler.
单词 | gabeller |
释义 | gabellern.α. 1600s 2000s gabelier Brit. /ɡəˈbɛlɪeɪ/, U.S. /ɡəˈbɛlˌjeɪ/, 1500s–1600s 1800s gabellier. β. 1600s–1900s gabeller, 1800s–1900s gabeler. Now historical and rare. A person who collects taxes or gabelles (gabelle n.). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > collector of duty on goods > collector of specific duties gabeller1598 galera1641 salt-master1656 setter1699 stamp-collector1710 malt-officer1726 salt-officer1748 stamp-man1765 VATman1977 1598 tr. P. Matthieu Hist. Troubles France iii. 93 in tr. J. de Serres Hist. Coll. The Gabelliers [Fr. Gabelleurs] asked a halfe-penny of a poore woman that solde Cresson. 1654 J. Howell in S. Lennard tr. S. Mazzella Parthenopoeia 48 They continued still burning the houses of the Gabeliers or Customers. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 282 He [sc. Masaniello] commanded them to cast into the fire all the goods, papers, plate, beds, hangings &c. of the Gabelliers. 1685 J. Wright Compend. View Late Tumults Pref. sig. A5 To their tumultuous burning the Gabellers Goods, I think I may, not unaptly, compair our burning the Pope. 1702 A. Brown Char. True Publick Spirit ii. 118 When the Publicans, Gabellers and tollmen of a Nation or Community, prosper best, and become Rich. 1729 F. Midon Hist. Masaniello Index 215 He and Perrone draw out a List of 60 Houses of the Gabellers to have them burnt. 1874 R. Black tr. F. P. G. Guizot Hist. France III. xxxi. 244 [They] were..beaten to death and had their bodies cast into the river with the insulting remark, ‘Go, wicked gabellers, and salt the fish of the Charente.’ 1982 R. Thaxton in R. P. Weller & S. E. Guggenheim Power & Protest in Countryside (1989) vii. 141 These smugglers peddled salt in free markets at prices below those of the gabellers. 2004 D. Williams Condorcet & Modernity vii. 180 A sly definition of faux-saunage as the illegal trade in the kind of salt to which the gabeliers have not added dust. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598 |
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