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Significados de sumptuary law en inglés

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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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        Examples for "sumptuary statute"
        Examples for "sumptuary statute"
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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
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        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        Superseded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)
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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)
        Uso de sumptuary law en inglés
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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
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        Scaurus was also the author of a sumptuary law.
        A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
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        This sumptuary law was passed during the public distress consequent upon Hannibal's invasion of Italy.
        The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes
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        Such is the sumptuary law of the saloon.
        Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into...
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        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
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        Surely there should be a sumptuary law compelling pastry-cooks to deal in cellars or behind drawn blinds.
        Paul Kelver
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        And you must know that our Isabelle was one of the ladies who brought about the sumptuary law.
        All souls' rising
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        A sumptuary law was enacted.
        The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 06: Nero
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        What is a sumptuary law?
        Problems in American Democracy
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        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...
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        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
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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
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