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 The Sumptuary Laws were a set of laws that prevented extravagance in private life by limiting expenditure for clothing, food and furniture. These laws were made to control behaviour such as: wearing certain apparel, consuming certain foods and beverages (usually of alcoholic nature) and, hunting game in certain areas....

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 Sumptuary laws (from Latin sumptuariae leges) are laws that attempt to regulate habits of consumption. Black's Law Dictionary defines them as if "Laws made for the purpose of restraining luxury or extravagance, particularly against inordinate expenditures in the matter of apparel, food, furniture, etc."[1] Traditionally, they were laws that regulated and reinforcedsocial hierarchies and morals through restrictions on clothing, food, and luxury expenditures. In most times and places, they were ineffectual.[2]

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