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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tall/tɔːl/

▶adjective of great or more than average height.

■ measuring a specified distance from top to bottom.

– phrases
a tall order an unreasonable or difficult demand.
tall story (or tale) an account that is fanciful and difficult to believe.

– derivatives
tallish adjective,
tallness noun.

– origin ME (in senses ‘swift, prompt, fine, handsome’, and ‘bold, strong’): prob. from OE getæl ‘swift, prompt’.

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