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• s  regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior
  sumptuary laws discouraging construction of large houses on small plots
  sumptuary laws forbidding gambling

• I think sumptuary laws are matters for parochial adjustment.
• British law, in its impartial majesty, forbids members of Parliament to include their franked mail indecent slogans as well as those exciting sumptuary or religious passions.
• His general denunciation of sumptuary legislation was, of course, received as a specific condemnation of Prohibition.