Meaning of sumptuary law | Babel Free
Definitions
A law that attempts to regulate permitted consumption, especially of clothing, food, and luxury expenditures.
Equivalents
Suomi
säännöstelylaki
Examples
“The Sumptuary Laws have⟳ fallen into such a state of desuetude as was never before seen. Our fashionable coat is an amphibium between barn-sack and drayman’s doublet.”
“In past societies based on ascribed status, formal rules and proclamations regulated lifestyle conventions. Sumptuary laws codified which classes could wear⟳ which garments. […] With the development of achieved status, we've abandoned sumptuary laws and given Lady Justice a blindfold.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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