black-mail

black-mail
(entrée créée par le supplément)
(blak-mél) s. m.
Mot anglais signifiant redevance forcée, et se disant particulièrement de celle que les gens des basses terres en Écosse payaient aux gens des hautes terres, pour être à l'abri de leurs déprédations.
   Par extension.
   Quand le maître avait payé.... son black-mail aux industries voisines qui avaient le droit de lui refuser ou des clous, ou des tubes de cuivre, ou tout autre élément indispensable à sa production, J. SIMON la Liberté, t. II, p. 34, Paris, 1859.
   Angl. black mail, proprement maille noire (maille, pièce de monnaie). Voy. maille 3.

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré. . 1872-1877.

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