blue law

English

Etymology

Unknown

Noun

blue law (plural blue laws)

  1. (law) A law that prohibits or restricts commercial activity on Sunday.
  2. (historical, law) Any of the highly restrictive and rigorously enforced laws governing morality and conduct in colonial New England.
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