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Significados de sumptuary laws 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.

lujo--derecho
Uso de sumptuary laws en inglés
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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Superseded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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Witness the elaborate sumptuary laws dictating Tudor court costume currently on display at Buckingham Palace.
The Guardian
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Without sumptuary laws, faces and bodies change from day to day like images in nightmare.
Engineering Infinity
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We have public-house licensing laws, but not sumptuary laws.
Heretics
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Thirdly, such taxes would operate less as sumptuary laws.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Confess, then, that your sumptuary laws are but hypocrisy.
System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Miser...
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Why, my Deucalion, would you have no sumptuary laws?
The Lost Continent
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Against the insane extravagance in the employment of foreign perfumery the sumptuary laws interfered in vain.
The History of Rome, Book IV / The Revolution
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She had made fresh sumptuary laws, it appeared.
The Lost Continent
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This law, like all sumptuary laws, must fail.
North America — Volume 1
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She was the last woman, I believe, to be fined under the colonial sumptuary laws of Massachusetts.
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
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There are sumptuary laws, I needn't say.
The Dawn of All
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