(adj.) regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior; 'sumptuary laws discouraging construction of large houses on small plots'; 'sumptuary laws forbidding gambling' .
安东录入
双语例句
When it tries to do so by sumptuary legislation, nothing but mischief is invoked. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
This is a sumptuary law, too, restraining the luxury and extravagance of the poor. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Thirdly, such taxes would operate less as sumptuary laws. 亚当·斯密.国富论.