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Значения термина sumptuary statute на английском

русский
сумптуарные законы
португальский
leis suntuárias
испанский
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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.

        сумптуарные законы
        Синонимы
        Examples for "sumptuary law"
        Examples for "sumptuary law"
        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
        1
        Who, save some man of erudition, has knowledge to-day of sumptuary laws?
        Characters and events of Roman History
        2
        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...
        4
        Amongst the poorer ranks of Miss Quincey's profession the sumptuary laws are exceptionally severe.
        Superseded
        5
        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)
        1
        The English Sumptuary Statutes relating to Apparel commenced with the 37th of Edward III.
        Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4)
        Translations for sumptuary statute