noun, feminine/dim/plural: dîmes
tithe
“Ce refus d'accepter un rafraîchissement lui semblait une hypocrisie des plus odieuses; les prêtres godaillaient tous sans qu'on les vît, et cherchaient à ramener le temps de la dîme.” — This refusal to take any refreshment seemed to him the most odious hypocrisy; all priests tippled on the sly, and were trying to bring back the days of the tithe.
Inherited from Old French dixme, from Latin decima (pars) (“tenth (part)”). Compare the borrowed doublet décime.