Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sumptuary law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English

Syllables: sump-tu-ary law
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Inflected Forms

sumptuary laws (plural)

Questions

What does sumptuary law mean?: A law that attempts to regulate permitted consumption, especially of clothing, food, and luxury expenditures.

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