dry law
Americannoun
noun
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Courting the female vote, the state’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made the dry law a bedrock of his re-election campaign and signed the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act in 2016.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2025
They were unable to disregard the voters' growing disgust with the dry law.
From Time Magazine Archive
"This bureau which you supported," the Senator concluded, "really enforced the dry law then, in the absence of the legislation which the State Legislature refused to pass?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Speakeasies flourished, for Nevada has no dry law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Georgina's grandfather, George Justin Huntingdon, a judge and a writer of dry law books, had been one of the first to open his home to him.
From Georgina of the Rainbows by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
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