sumptuary

IPA: sˈʌmptʃuɛri

Relating to expenditure or expense, especially on luxury goods.
(law, historical)
Chiefly in sumptuary law: of a law, regulation, etc.: intended to limit or restrain the expenditure of citizens in apparel, food, furniture, etc., or to forbid the use of certain articles (especially luxurious ones), to regulate the prices of commodities and the wages of labour, or to reinforce morals or social hierarchies.
(by extension) Of or relating to sumptuary laws or regulations.

Examples of "sumptuary" in Sentences

For Ponte: Barton Beebe has a useful paper on sumptuary rules in TM.
Me for Ponte: I want to know more about sumptuary laws as economic protectionism.
The sumptuary laws of Rome defined exactly who could wear the Tyrian purple dye, and how much.
And what this all points to to me is a new kind of sumptuary law, or an attack on what some people consider conspicuous consumption.
In those days there was a law, known as a sumptuary law, which regulated by statute the clothes that each class of people were privileged to wear.
He was fascinated by the "sumptuary" distinctions that separated the truly well off from the "shoestring aristocrats" and the shoestring aristocrats from those simply aspiring to their status.
But even though it had been, golly, four or five years already since the dress laws - "sumptuary" laws they called them at school -- she just could not get used to them, after living in jeans all those years.
Perhaps it was from this cause that the idea of sumptuary laws originated; for though, in some cases, the pride of being distinguished might occasion the sovereign to enact, or the higher orders of society to solicit them, yet they were always considered as tending to prevent ruinous extravagance.