blue laws in English
noun
1
a law prohibiting certain activities, such as shopping, on a Sunday.
My friend points me to the following article about how the state may relax its blue laws and allow cities to permit selling alcohol on Sundays.
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1. Blue (adj.2) "lewd, indecent" recorded from 1840 (in form Blueness, in an essay of Carlyle's); the sense connection with the color name (see Blue (adj.1)) is unclear, and is opposite to that in Blue laws (q.v.)