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Meanings of sumptuary law in inglés

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сумптуарные законы
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leis suntuárias
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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.

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        Usage of sumptuary law in inglés
        1
        Is the Woman's Rule a sumptuary law as well as a regimen?
        A Modern Utopia
        2
        His feathers might be cut off for breaking a sumptuary law.
        Heretics
        3
        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
        4
        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
        6
        This sumptuary law was passed during the public distress consequent upon Hannibal's invasion of Italy.
        The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes
        7
        Such is the sumptuary law of the saloon.
        Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into...
        8
        Another was a sumptuary law, which is said to have limited the price of certain luxuries.
        The Gracchi Marius and Sulla / Epochs of Ancient History
        9
        Surely there should be a sumptuary law compelling pastry-cooks to deal in cellars or behind drawn blinds.
        Paul Kelver
        10
        And you must know that our Isabelle was one of the ladies who brought about the sumptuary law.
        All souls' rising
        11
        A sumptuary law was enacted.
        The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 06: Nero
        12
        What is a sumptuary law?
        Problems in American Democracy
        13
        No sumptuary law will ever make any inroad on the cruel evil; and my feeling is one of sombre hopelessness.
        The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions; Or, Joints In Ou...
        14
        Such an arrangement partakes of all the vice of a sumptuary law, and sumptuary laws are in their very essence mistakes.
        North America — Volume 1
        15
        Who, save some man of erudition, has knowledge to-day of sumptuary laws?
        Characters and events of Roman History
        16
        The impolicy or inutility of sumptuary laws was not in this age acknowledged.
        Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
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