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blue law

blue law (plural blue laws)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. moral law: a law regulating moral conduct, e.g. a law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays

2. old law governing moral conduct: a law intended to govern moral conduct in colonial New England

[Blue in the sense of "puritanical"]
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