Sentences with word «sumptuary»

Her elaborate headdress, or tignon mandated by sumptuary law in Spanish colonial Louisiana to oppress women of African descent, is filled with historical and contemporary symbols.

Nowhere was the resulting «republican religion» more apparent than in the «Yale theology» of the early nineteenth century, the goal of which was «the moral renovation of the American people through revivalism, reform societies, the religious press, and sumptuary legislation.

It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries.

Historic works comprise a broad range of sculptural and two - dimensional objects that include reliquary guardian figures from Gabon, healing figures from the Republic of the Congo, vessels from Cameroon; masks and personal sumptuary from central and western Africa, and religious and political staffs from across Africa.

UKIP's own economic spokesman, Patrick O'Flynn, recently suggested the introduction of a modern - day sumptuary law, proposing a higher rate of VAT for luxury items, although he was quickly slapped down by Farage.

Example: sumptuary taxes.

Never before exhibited, these stunning garments, including seven kimono and an array of obi, were made after sumptuary laws were lifted in 1867, when commoners were no longer banned from wearing showy clothing with colors like red or purple.

This sort of law is not wholly different from past sumptuary laws, which were ostensibly aimed at «restraining luxury or extravagance... in the matter of apparel, food, furniture, etc.,» as Black's puts it, when in fact they were about maintaining social class distinctions and hierarchies — and mostly they failed.

And these were but the nucleus of the «sumptuary legislation» which had become so complex in Jesus» time that thirty - nine different types of labor were forbidden on the Sabbath, each type requiring further oral legislation to designate what did or did not constitute it.

So - called «sumptuary laws»

As a simple cult, it has failed to progress much beyond the concept of original sin, apocalyptic visions, sumptuary laws, and the selling of indulgences.

Symbolism is too plastic to be controlled like this; religion is too irrational to be «contained» by rational measures, even in its expression; dress is now sufficiently unconventional in possibility at least that attempts to impose new «sumptuary laws» are bound to fail.