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Meanings of sumptuary statutes in English

Russian
сумптуарные законы
Portuguese
leis suntuárias
Spanish
lujo--derecho

Law intended to control consumption, particulary such a law regulating apparel and textiles which may be worn by people of specified social strata.

сумптуарные законы
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Examples for "sumptuary law"
Examples for "sumptuary law"
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Is the Woman's Rule a sumptuary law as well as a regimen?
A Modern Utopia
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His feathers might be cut off for breaking a sumptuary law.
Heretics
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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
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If they can afford it, well and good: let us have no sumptuary law.
Yet Again
5
Scaurus was also the author of a sumptuary law.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
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Who, save some man of erudition, has knowledge to-day of sumptuary laws?
Characters and events of Roman History
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The impolicy or inutility of sumptuary laws was not in this age acknowledged.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
3
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...
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Amongst the poorer ranks of Miss Quincey's profession the sumptuary laws are exceptionally severe.
Superseded
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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)
Usage of sumptuary statutes in English
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The English Sumptuary Statutes relating to Apparel commenced with the 37th of Edward III.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4)
Translations for sumptuary statutes