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1.
pertaining to, dealing with, or regulating expense or expenditure.
2.
intended to regulate personal habits on moral or religious grounds.
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Sumptuary
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- In other words, nature seeks a type, and this tendency is more potent than sumptuary laws or the restraints of society and trade.
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sumptuary
"pertaining to expense," 1600, from L. sumptuarius "relating to expenses," from sumptus "expensive" (see sumptuous).
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