Definition of sumptuary in English:

sumptuary

adjectiveˈsʌm(p)tjʊəriˈsəm(p)(t)ʃəˌwɛri

historical

attributive Relating to or denoting laws that limit private expenditure on food and personal items.
〈主史〉（限制个人费用的）节约法令的
Example sentencesExamples
- What, in particular, was the diet of national leaders who introduced sumptuary laws, to prevent extravagant expenditure on food and wine?
- Ritual, extravagant traditional symbolism of rank and office, and elaborate sumptuary legislation soon appeared.
- He also rejected the idea that governments need concern themselves with the drinking habits of poor people or have any business passing sumptuary laws to restrain how poor people dress.
- The more covert and salacious these prints were, the more they were treasured by the general populace, who at such times were also frustrated by limits placed on their dress and behavior by strict sumptuary codes.
- Puritan settlers abided by English sumptuary laws that prohibited extravagance and regulated clothing styles according to trade, rank, and wealth.
- To his contemporaries he seemed subversive, robbing aristocracy of its sumptuary prerogatives.
- In fact, ancient sumptuary laws, explaining exactly what objects were forbidden by church and state, were read from the Anglican pulpit until the 1860s.
- Much like Western sumptuary laws, the intricate rules of ancestor worship were strictly enforced.
- The next chapter shifts focus to define the ‘morality’ of color, investigating practices like sumptuary legislation, intended to control wearing apparel and facilitate easy distinction of social classes in public places.
- In the Middle Ages, aristocrats and clerics were protected by a panoply of rules and customs - sumptuary laws, for example - that separated them from the peons.
- I call for legislating a mandatory sumptuary code strictly limiting persons licensed to wear them.
- Trade was controlled through feudal guilds, and detailed sumptuary regulations governed the lives of all social classes.
- There is evidence of the sheer silk called ‘tiffany’ often used for women's hoods, and of bone or bobbin lace, forbidden to common people in sumptuary laws, but displayed lavishly on the waistcoats and petticoats of merchant families.
- The Texas statute is sumptuary law that has no value in jurisprudence or society.
- Such magistracies ranged from feeding the homeless, enforcing sumptuary laws, protecting common lands, to protecting abused women, among other tasks.
- Under Raffles and for some time afterward, ground rent was virtually the sole source of public revenue except for sumptuary taxes on opium and liquor.
- While some of the items in this burial are sumptuary, such as the beads and bone flute, the article described these items, including the small pot, as being placed with the infant rather than the adult female.
- But sumptuary taxes, although sometimes prolific revenue producers, often fail in their intended function; when set high enough on a commodity to deter legal sale, they are evaded on the black market.
- My argument here is based on a sense of clothing's inability to signify depth, despite the attempts of sumptuary laws to fix clothing as a stable referent for identity.
- The sumptuary legislation that had once guaranteed the accurate display of social rank for both men and women under the Old Regime gave way to a more implicit code of masculine sameness and female difference.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin sumptuarius, from sumptus 'cost, expenditure', from sumere 'take'.

Definition of sumptuary in US English:

sumptuary

adjectiveˈsəm(p)(t)ʃəˌwɛriˈsəm(p)(t)SHəˌwerē

historical

attributive Relating to or denoting laws that limit private expenditure on food and personal items.
〈主史〉（限制个人费用的）节约法令的
Example sentencesExamples
- Trade was controlled through feudal guilds, and detailed sumptuary regulations governed the lives of all social classes.
- To his contemporaries he seemed subversive, robbing aristocracy of its sumptuary prerogatives.
- Much like Western sumptuary laws, the intricate rules of ancestor worship were strictly enforced.
- In fact, ancient sumptuary laws, explaining exactly what objects were forbidden by church and state, were read from the Anglican pulpit until the 1860s.
- Ritual, extravagant traditional symbolism of rank and office, and elaborate sumptuary legislation soon appeared.
- The more covert and salacious these prints were, the more they were treasured by the general populace, who at such times were also frustrated by limits placed on their dress and behavior by strict sumptuary codes.
- Under Raffles and for some time afterward, ground rent was virtually the sole source of public revenue except for sumptuary taxes on opium and liquor.
- But sumptuary taxes, although sometimes prolific revenue producers, often fail in their intended function; when set high enough on a commodity to deter legal sale, they are evaded on the black market.
- Such magistracies ranged from feeding the homeless, enforcing sumptuary laws, protecting common lands, to protecting abused women, among other tasks.
- There is evidence of the sheer silk called ‘tiffany’ often used for women's hoods, and of bone or bobbin lace, forbidden to common people in sumptuary laws, but displayed lavishly on the waistcoats and petticoats of merchant families.
- The next chapter shifts focus to define the ‘morality’ of color, investigating practices like sumptuary legislation, intended to control wearing apparel and facilitate easy distinction of social classes in public places.
- The Texas statute is sumptuary law that has no value in jurisprudence or society.
- I call for legislating a mandatory sumptuary code strictly limiting persons licensed to wear them.
- He also rejected the idea that governments need concern themselves with the drinking habits of poor people or have any business passing sumptuary laws to restrain how poor people dress.
- The sumptuary legislation that had once guaranteed the accurate display of social rank for both men and women under the Old Regime gave way to a more implicit code of masculine sameness and female difference.
- Puritan settlers abided by English sumptuary laws that prohibited extravagance and regulated clothing styles according to trade, rank, and wealth.
- What, in particular, was the diet of national leaders who introduced sumptuary laws, to prevent extravagant expenditure on food and wine?
- In the Middle Ages, aristocrats and clerics were protected by a panoply of rules and customs - sumptuary laws, for example - that separated them from the peons.
- While some of the items in this burial are sumptuary, such as the beads and bone flute, the article described these items, including the small pot, as being placed with the infant rather than the adult female.
- My argument here is based on a sense of clothing's inability to signify depth, despite the attempts of sumptuary laws to fix clothing as a stable referent for identity.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin sumptuarius, from sumptus ‘cost, expenditure’, from sumere ‘take’.

词汇	sumptuary
释义	Definition of sumptuary in English: sumptuary adjectiveˈsʌm(p)tjʊəriˈsəm(p)(t)ʃəˌwɛri historical attributive Relating to or denoting laws that limit private expenditure on food and personal items. 〈主史〉（限制个人费用的）节约法令的 Example sentencesExamples What, in particular, was the diet of national leaders who introduced sumptuary laws, to prevent extravagant expenditure on food and wine? Ritual, extravagant traditional symbolism of rank and office, and elaborate sumptuary legislation soon appeared. He also rejected the idea that governments need concern themselves with the drinking habits of poor people or have any business passing sumptuary laws to restrain how poor people dress. The more covert and salacious these prints were, the more they were treasured by the general populace, who at such times were also frustrated by limits placed on their dress and behavior by strict sumptuary codes. Puritan settlers abided by English sumptuary laws that prohibited extravagance and regulated clothing styles according to trade, rank, and wealth. To his contemporaries he seemed subversive, robbing aristocracy of its sumptuary prerogatives. In fact, ancient sumptuary laws, explaining exactly what objects were forbidden by church and state, were read from the Anglican pulpit until the 1860s. Much like Western sumptuary laws, the intricate rules of ancestor worship were strictly enforced. The next chapter shifts focus to define the ‘morality’ of color, investigating practices like sumptuary legislation, intended to control wearing apparel and facilitate easy distinction of social classes in public places. In the Middle Ages, aristocrats and clerics were protected by a panoply of rules and customs - sumptuary laws, for example - that separated them from the peons. I call for legislating a mandatory sumptuary code strictly limiting persons licensed to wear them. Trade was controlled through feudal guilds, and detailed sumptuary regulations governed the lives of all social classes. There is evidence of the sheer silk called ‘tiffany’ often used for women's hoods, and of bone or bobbin lace, forbidden to common people in sumptuary laws, but displayed lavishly on the waistcoats and petticoats of merchant families. The Texas statute is sumptuary law that has no value in jurisprudence or society. Such magistracies ranged from feeding the homeless, enforcing sumptuary laws, protecting common lands, to protecting abused women, among other tasks. Under Raffles and for some time afterward, ground rent was virtually the sole source of public revenue except for sumptuary taxes on opium and liquor. While some of the items in this burial are sumptuary, such as the beads and bone flute, the article described these items, including the small pot, as being placed with the infant rather than the adult female. But sumptuary taxes, although sometimes prolific revenue producers, often fail in their intended function; when set high enough on a commodity to deter legal sale, they are evaded on the black market. My argument here is based on a sense of clothing's inability to signify depth, despite the attempts of sumptuary laws to fix clothing as a stable referent for identity. The sumptuary legislation that had once guaranteed the accurate display of social rank for both men and women under the Old Regime gave way to a more implicit code of masculine sameness and female difference. Origin Early 17th century: from Latin sumptuarius, from sumptus 'cost, expenditure', from sumere 'take'. Definition of sumptuary in US English: sumptuary adjectiveˈsəm(p)(t)ʃəˌwɛriˈsəm(p)(t)SHəˌwerē historical attributive Relating to or denoting laws that limit private expenditure on food and personal items. 〈主史〉（限制个人费用的）节约法令的 Example sentencesExamples Trade was controlled through feudal guilds, and detailed sumptuary regulations governed the lives of all social classes. To his contemporaries he seemed subversive, robbing aristocracy of its sumptuary prerogatives. Much like Western sumptuary laws, the intricate rules of ancestor worship were strictly enforced. In fact, ancient sumptuary laws, explaining exactly what objects were forbidden by church and state, were read from the Anglican pulpit until the 1860s. Ritual, extravagant traditional symbolism of rank and office, and elaborate sumptuary legislation soon appeared. The more covert and salacious these prints were, the more they were treasured by the general populace, who at such times were also frustrated by limits placed on their dress and behavior by strict sumptuary codes. Under Raffles and for some time afterward, ground rent was virtually the sole source of public revenue except for sumptuary taxes on opium and liquor. But sumptuary taxes, although sometimes prolific revenue producers, often fail in their intended function; when set high enough on a commodity to deter legal sale, they are evaded on the black market. Such magistracies ranged from feeding the homeless, enforcing sumptuary laws, protecting common lands, to protecting abused women, among other tasks. There is evidence of the sheer silk called ‘tiffany’ often used for women's hoods, and of bone or bobbin lace, forbidden to common people in sumptuary laws, but displayed lavishly on the waistcoats and petticoats of merchant families. The next chapter shifts focus to define the ‘morality’ of color, investigating practices like sumptuary legislation, intended to control wearing apparel and facilitate easy distinction of social classes in public places. The Texas statute is sumptuary law that has no value in jurisprudence or society. I call for legislating a mandatory sumptuary code strictly limiting persons licensed to wear them. He also rejected the idea that governments need concern themselves with the drinking habits of poor people or have any business passing sumptuary laws to restrain how poor people dress. The sumptuary legislation that had once guaranteed the accurate display of social rank for both men and women under the Old Regime gave way to a more implicit code of masculine sameness and female difference. Puritan settlers abided by English sumptuary laws that prohibited extravagance and regulated clothing styles according to trade, rank, and wealth. What, in particular, was the diet of national leaders who introduced sumptuary laws, to prevent extravagant expenditure on food and wine? In the Middle Ages, aristocrats and clerics were protected by a panoply of rules and customs - sumptuary laws, for example - that separated them from the peons. While some of the items in this burial are sumptuary, such as the beads and bone flute, the article described these items, including the small pot, as being placed with the infant rather than the adult female. My argument here is based on a sense of clothing's inability to signify depth, despite the attempts of sumptuary laws to fix clothing as a stable referent for identity. Origin Early 17th century: from Latin sumptuarius, from sumptus ‘cost, expenditure’, from sumere ‘take’.
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