sumptuary

1 Personal ornaments and coloured raiment have until now been restricted by the severest sumptuary laws, and none, except the highest chiefs and warriors of the land, were ever honoured by an exemption from the rule.

2 Under the empire, notwithstanding sumptuary enactments, the passion for the arena steadily increased.

3 But though indubitably above the operation of any unwritten sumptuary law, even the Clayton Vernons ventured only in wet weather to bring their carriage to chapel.

4 It has often been attempted to stigmatize the wholesome, prohibitory laws of the several States, in regard to the sale of intoxicating liquor, by calling them sumptuary laws.

5 You know my wife might be fined by the sumptuary laws if she aped the nobility by wearing anything so fine as this.

6 Most periods of good sumptuary art owe their designs to a few old types constantly reproduced under new and agreeable varieties, that are not radical changes.

7 When Cosimo was in power, from 1537, fashion was governed by strict sumptuary laws, which rationed expensive fabrics and dyes, and enforced on society a strict pecking order - if you'll overlook the expression.

8 Both these weighty offences may, in some measure, be checked by wisely devised sumptuary laws.

9 I mumble thanks for the advice, feeling like I’ve just been stripped naked by the crazed enforcer of some ancient sumptuary law: No chatting for you, girl.

10 The endless sumptuary laws about dress gave it a disproportionate importance; it fostered more than anything else vanity and an inordinate desire in each to raise himself above his position.

11 I hear the sumptuary laws in Buffalo are very strict.”

12 She represented really the type of that belle affranchie of other days, against whose fascination special sumptuary laws were made: romantically she imaged for me the supernatural godmothers and Cinderellas of the Creole fairy-tales.

13 But towards the end of the middle ages many sumptuary laws were enacted in cities by plebeian jealousy of the rich.

14 However, sumptuary laws dictated what women could and could not wear, elite men kept concubines, and the Tang legal system considered women property.

15 The Venetian sumptuary laws were passed on account of the anxiety of the state that some rich men might shine above the rest of the oligarchs.

16 In India, unlike in Britain, there are no written codes of conduct or sumptuary laws about what should be worn.

17 In the latter, therefore, luxury should be restricted in every way: agrarian laws should modify the too great difference in property and sumptuary laws restrain the too glaring manifestations of extravagance.

18 In 1326 the women of Florence petitioned the Duchess of Calabria to ask her husband the duke to relax legislation preventing them from wearing false hair, part of a package of sumptuary laws that ordered people to wear clothing, accessories, and hairstyles suitable to their social positions.

19 The effect of Prohibition, sumptuary law enacted in government, upon the political fabric of the government, should claim the serious attention of American citizens particularly.

20 But it’s become a thing you can consume much more like a novel, a portable, sumptuary pleasure.

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