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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: "Shopping days"; really "Blue Laws"
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 03:01:15 EST
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From my "New Webster's Dictionary of the English Language":

blue laws, n.pl.  Severe or puritanic laws, especially those forbidding
any entertainment or business on the Sabbath: from an alleged code said
to have been adopted in the colonies of New England.
-- 
    Barry Margolin
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