Usually means: Laws restricting Sunday business activities.
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  2. blue laws: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. blue laws: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  8. blue laws: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Blue Laws (Connecticut), Blue laws: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. BLUE LAWS: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  11. Blue Laws: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
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  15. blue laws: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. blue laws: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. blue laws: Law.com Dictionary
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  6. Blue Laws: Legal dictionary
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Blue Laws)

▸ noun:  The Blue Laws of the Colony of Connecticut are an invented set of harsh statutes governing conduct in the Puritan colony, listed in a history of Connecticut that was published in 1781 in London by the Reverend Samuel Peters, an Anglican who had been forced to leave America.

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blue sky laws, blue laws of connecticut, Blue laws in the United States, more...
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