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Meanings of sumptuary in English

Sumptuary.

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          1
          And such, accordingly, was the disposition made of Master Endicott's sumptuary motion.
          The Knight of the Golden Melice: A Historical Romance
          2
          Is the Woman's Rule a sumptuary law as well as a regimen?
          A Modern Utopia
          3
          Who, save some man of erudition, has knowledge to-day of sumptuary laws?
          Characters and events of Roman History
          4
          The impolicy or inutility of sumptuary laws was not in this age acknowledged.
          Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
          5
          His feathers might be cut off for breaking a sumptuary law.
          Heretics
          6
          The Orchian and other sumptuary laws fail to repress the luxury of the Romans.
          The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Ris...
          7
          This is a sumptuary law, too, restraining the luxury and extravagance of the poor.
          An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
          8
          If they can afford it, well and good: let us have no sumptuary law.
          Yet Again
          9
          Amongst the poorer ranks of Miss Quincey's profession the sumptuary laws are exceptionally severe.
          Superseded
          10
          When it tries to do so by sumptuary legislation, nothing but mischief is invoked.
          A Preface to Politics
          11
          These sumptuary laws of New England followed in spirit and letter similar laws in England.
          Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
          12
          Witness the elaborate sumptuary laws dictating Tudor court costume currently on display at Buckingham Palace.
          The Guardian
          13
          Without sumptuary laws, faces and bodies change from day to day like images in nightmare.
          Engineering Infinity
          14
          Scaurus was also the author of a sumptuary law.
          A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
          15
          Yet no sooner had Japan established herself again than once more sumptuary regulations were issued.
          Korea's Fight for Freedom
          16
          We have public-house licensing laws, but not sumptuary laws.
          Heretics
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