window tax
noun
history a tax on windows in houses levied between 1696 and 1851
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Historical Examples of window tax
Why should the ghost in Hamlet have been liable to the window-tax?
How to Solve ConundrumsAnonymous
Every window that could be spared was shut up, to save the window-tax.
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2)Charles Creighton
England houses the exile, but not without house-tax, window-tax, and head-tax.
At Home And AbroadMargaret Fuller Ossoli
I could almost wish for a return of the window-tax if it would check these poetical brethren.
The Art of IllustrationCharles Haddon Spurgeon
He chose for the purpose a recess where had formerly been a window, but which had been blocked up to save the window-tax.
Mysteries of Police and CrimeArthur Griffiths