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noun a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
noun a decree that prohibits something
noun the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
originFrom Anglo-Norman and Old French prohibicion, from Latin prohibitiō. By surface analysis, prohibit + -ion.
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