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Meanings of sumptuary laws in inglês
Law intended to control consumption, particulary such a law regulating apparel and textiles which may be worn by people of specified social strata.
Usage of sumptuary laws in inglês
1
Who, save some man of erudition, has knowledge to-day of sumptuary laws?
2
The impolicy or inutility of sumptuary laws was not in this age acknowledged.
3
The Orchian and other sumptuary laws fail to repress the luxury of the Romans.
4
Amongst the poorer ranks of Miss Quincey's profession the sumptuary laws are exceptionally severe.
5
These sumptuary laws of New England followed in spirit and letter similar laws in England.
6
Witness the elaborate sumptuary laws dictating Tudor court costume currently on display at Buckingham Palace.
7
Without sumptuary laws, faces and bodies change from day to day like images in nightmare.
8
We have public-house licensing laws, but not sumptuary laws.
9
Thirdly, such taxes would operate less as sumptuary laws.
10
Confess, then, that your sumptuary laws are but hypocrisy.
11
Why, my Deucalion, would you have no sumptuary laws?
12
Against the insane extravagance in the employment of foreign perfumery the sumptuary laws interfered in vain.
13
She had made fresh sumptuary laws, it appeared.
14
This law, like all sumptuary laws, must fail.
15
She was the last woman, I believe, to be fined under the colonial sumptuary laws of Massachusetts.
16
There are sumptuary laws, I needn't say.
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