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Prohibition

proper nounattested in dialogue

Any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.

  2. 2

    Any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. The period from 17 January 1920 through 5 December 1933 in the United States, between the effective dates of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  3. 3

    The 66th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

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