sumptuary
खाजगी खर्चावर नियंत्रण ठेवणारा
definition
adjective
I call for legislating a mandatory sumptuary code strictly limiting persons licensed to wear them.
relating to or denoting laws that limit private expenditure on food and personal items.
translation of 'sumptuary'
खाजगी खर्चावर नियंत्रण ठेवणारा,
व्ययनियमविषयक
example
Ritual, extravagant traditional symbolism of rank and office, and elaborate 'sumptuary' legislation soon appeared.
In the Middle Ages, aristocrats and clerics were protected by a panoply of rules and customs - 'sumptuary' laws, for example - that separated them from the peons.
But 'sumptuary' taxes, although sometimes prolific revenue producers, often fail in their intended function; when set high enough on a commodity to deter legal sale, they are evaded on the black market.
Much like Western 'sumptuary' laws, the intricate rules of ancestor worship were strictly enforced.
While some of the items in this burial are 'sumptuary' , such as the beads and bone flute, the article described these items, including the small pot, as being placed with the infant rather than the adult female.
He also rejected the idea that governments need concern themselves with the drinking habits of poor people or have any business passing 'sumptuary' laws to restrain how poor people dress.
The Texas statute is 'sumptuary' law that has no value in jurisprudence or society.
Under Raffles and for some time afterward, ground rent was virtually the sole source of public revenue except for 'sumptuary' taxes on opium and liquor.
What, in particular, was the diet of national leaders who introduced 'sumptuary' laws, to prevent extravagant expenditure on food and wine?
The 'sumptuary' legislation that had once guaranteed the accurate display of social rank for both men and women under the Old Regime gave way to a more implicit code of masculine sameness and female difference.
In fact, ancient 'sumptuary' laws, explaining exactly what objects were forbidden by church and state, were read from the Anglican pulpit until the 1860s.
Trade was controlled through feudal guilds, and detailed 'sumptuary' regulations governed the lives of all social classes.
To his contemporaries he seemed subversive, robbing aristocracy of its 'sumptuary' prerogatives.
The more covert and salacious these prints were, the more they were treasured by the general populace, who at such times were also frustrated by limits placed on their dress and behavior by strict 'sumptuary' codes.
The next chapter shifts focus to define the ‘morality’ of color, investigating practices like 'sumptuary' legislation, intended to control wearing apparel and facilitate easy distinction of social classes in public places.
Puritan settlers abided by English 'sumptuary' laws that prohibited extravagance and regulated clothing styles according to trade, rank, and wealth.
My argument here is based on a sense of clothing's inability to signify depth, despite the attempts of 'sumptuary' laws to fix clothing as a stable referent for identity.
I call for legislating a mandatory 'sumptuary' code strictly limiting persons licensed to wear them.
There is evidence of the sheer silk called ‘tiffany’ often used for women's hoods, and of bone or bobbin lace, forbidden to common people in 'sumptuary' laws, but displayed lavishly on the waistcoats and petticoats of merchant families.
Such magistracies ranged from feeding the homeless, enforcing 'sumptuary' laws, protecting common lands, to protecting abused women, among other tasks.
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