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Sumptuary
Sumptuary meaning
Relating to expenditure or expense, especially on luxury goods. | Chiefly in sumptuary law: of a law, regulation, etc.: intended to limit or restrain the expenditure of citizens in apparel, food, furniture, etc., or to forbid the use of certain articles (especially luxurious ones), to regulate the prices of commodities and the wages of labour, or to reinforce morals or social hierarchies. | Of or relating to sumptuary laws or regulations.
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History provides many examples of elaborate sumptuary laws that regulated what people could wear.
In some cultures, sumptuary laws regulate what men and women are required to wear.
Sumptuary laws regulated the food that one consumed and the clothes that one wore according to status and social class.
Under their rule, sumptuary laws forbade anybody else from wearing the veil, thereby making it the distinctive dress of the ruling class.