Waist
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This article explains the waist as a concept of anatomy or fashion; for other meanings, see waist (disambiguation).
Taille (French taille '(body) cut', 'growth', to: tailler '(zer)schneiden') usually refers to the narrowest part of the torso located between the hips and chest. According to the dictionary, it also describes the belt line more or less tightly fitting part of clothing covering the waist, as well as obsolete the bodice. The waist occurs zootomically both in insects, where it is located between the thorax and abdomen, and in most vertebrates, where it is located between the thorax and hip. The narrowest part of the resonating body between the upper width or chest width and the lower width of bowed and plucked instruments is also called the waist.
Waist (center) and hip (right) of a woman.
Etymology
Taille for the "narrowest part of the body between the breast and the hip", "girdle area", is also a historical term for a tax levied by the royal treasury in France from the 15th century until the French Revolution (cf. Taille - tax) and found both uses in the mid-18th century as a takeover from the synonymous French taille, which was already borrowed in the mid-17th century in the sense "size", "shape", "form", "stature" (especially of women), which is no longer common today. In German, the meaning "tight-fitting bodice", "bodice" had developed by the end of the 18th century. Old French taille: "the cutting", "cutting", "shape", "form", "growth", "cutting edge", "notch", "tax" (also "upper body", "girdle area") is verbal noun to Old French taillier, French tailler "(to) cut", "to dissect", "to cut", from Late Latin tāliāre "to split", "to cut", a derivative of Latin tālea "little stick", "seedling", "any cut stick-like piece".
Insects can also show a distinct waist (cf. wasp waist).
