Both these weighty offences may, in some measure, be checked by wisely devisedsumptuary laws.
If he does not take care, he will find himself wielding the bosom of sumptuary reform in the most sweeping manner before he is aware of it.
Must we not a little doubt the consistency of his policy and even his insight when we find him after all this enacting sumptuary laws?
How does this sumptuary law of the saloon compare with a sumptuary law that forbids the sale of what is of no earthly or eternal benefit to any one who uses it.
I wonder if the great editor ever considered the sumptuary law of the saloon.
The sumptuary law of the saloon says to hundreds of thousands of such women: "You shall not have a home; you shall live in a hovel.
Far back in the twelfth century sovereigns began to issue sumptuary laws in order to restore respect for the inequality of rank, and to prevent one woman from wearing garments exclusively reserved for another.
Sumptuary laws never filled the demand, nor are they the proper weapons by which to overcome extravagance and folly in dress.
When we speak of past fashions, we must always mention sumptuary laws at the same time; that is to say, remedial measures against the excesses of caprice and luxury.
The statute of 1600, prohibiting hunting and hawking to those who had not "the revenues requisit in sik pastimes," is plainly one of a sumptuary tenor, and not properly a game law.
In France, there were sumptuary laws as old as Charlemagne, prohibiting or taxing the use of furs; but the first extensive regulation was under Philip the Fair.
Why, my Deucalion, would you have no sumptuary laws?
The impolicy or inutility of sumptuary laws was not in this age acknowledged.
The sumptuary laws, and especially the Decrees issued by Philip IV.
They have sumptuary laws in this town, which distinguish their rank by their dress, prevent the excess which ruins so many other cities, and has a more agreeable effect to the eye of a stranger, than our fashions.
It was to no purpose, however; the sumptuary laws continued to be disregarded as heretofore.
The sumptuary laws continued to be enacted against this, that, or the other abuse, or fancied abuse.
The sumptuary laws regulating these matters have been referred to in the introduction to this work.
Yet no sooner had Japan established herself again than once more sumptuaryregulations were issued.
The Japanese advisers instituted a number of sumptuary laws that stirred the country to its depths, relating to the length of pipes, style of dress, and the attiring of the hair of the people.
Meanwhile sumptuary laws continued to be promulgated from the Rostra and accepted by the people.
Sumptuary law; activity of the censors Metellus and Domitius (B.
The question hinges on what are called "sumptuary laws"; that is, statutes regulating the food and drink, the habits and apparel of the individual citizen.
What slavery and secession were unable to accomplish has been brought about by nationalizing sumptuarylaws and suffrage.
Sempere, in his sensible "Historia del Luxo," has exhibited the series of the manifoldsumptuary laws in Castile.
The sumptuary laws of Ferdinand and Isabella are open, for the most part, to the same objections with those just noticed.
In the light of modern experience gained by modern governments dillydallying with sumptuary legislation that has been discarded as a bad job some two thousand years ago, the question seems superfluous.
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.
The rule of the dead extended to moral conduct and even to sumptuary matters, language, and amusements.
It also, however, led to ruinous expenditure in every country, at times requiring special edicts to restrain its extravagance, and even the revival of the old Sumptuary laws to repress it.
The object of this law was to give greater sanction to the provisions of the Lex Fannia, a sumptuary law, which had become nearly obsolete.
Great attention was paid to dress, and though no sumptuary laws were in force, the principle on which they were founded was still remembered, and attire bespoke the position of the wearer.
The sumptuary restrictions, which came to be known as cosas arbitrarias, were considered to be the act of the tribunal, which could remove them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sumptuary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
