English Dictionary

sumptuary law

noun

(historical) A law that attempts to regulate permitted consumption, especially of clothing, food, and luxury expenditures.

Sumptuary laws were regulations that dictated what people could wear and consume based on their social status.

意味（1）

(historical) A law that attempts to regulate permitted consumption, especially of clothing, food, and luxury expenditures.

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.