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Meanings of sumptuary in English
Usage of sumptuary in English
1
And such, accordingly, was the disposition made of Master Endicott's sumptuary motion.
2
Is the Woman's Rule a sumptuary law as well as a regimen?
3
Who, save some man of erudition, has knowledge to-day of sumptuary laws?
4
The impolicy or inutility of sumptuary laws was not in this age acknowledged.
5
His feathers might be cut off for breaking a sumptuary law.
6
The Orchian and other sumptuary laws fail to repress the luxury of the Romans.
7
This is a sumptuary law, too, restraining the luxury and extravagance of the poor.
8
If they can afford it, well and good: let us have no sumptuary law.
9
Amongst the poorer ranks of Miss Quincey's profession the sumptuary laws are exceptionally severe.
10
When it tries to do so by sumptuary legislation, nothing but mischief is invoked.
11
These sumptuary laws of New England followed in spirit and letter similar laws in England.
12
Witness the elaborate sumptuary laws dictating Tudor court costume currently on display at Buckingham Palace.
13
Without sumptuary laws, faces and bodies change from day to day like images in nightmare.
14
Scaurus was also the author of a sumptuary law.
15
Yet no sooner had Japan established herself again than once more sumptuary regulations were issued.
16
We have public-house licensing laws, but not sumptuary laws.
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