"sumptuary law" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter XIII, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2022, W. David Marx, chapter 2, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A law that attempts to regulate permitted consumption, especially of clothing, food, and luxury expenditures."
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          "roman": "xiànzhìxiāofèifǎ",
          "sense": "law that attempts to regulate permitted consumption",
          "word": "限制消費法 /限制消费法"
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          "word": "säännöstelylaki"
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          "sense": "law that attempts to regulate permitted consumption",
          "word": "sumptuariae leges"
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          "sense": "law that attempts to regulate permitted consumption",
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