blue law的词源

英文词源

blue laws: 1781, severe Puritanical code said to have been enacted 18c. in New Haven, Connecticut; of uncertain origin, perhaps from one of the ground senses behind blues, or from notion of coldness. Or perhaps connected to bluestocking in the sense of "puritanically plain or mean" (see bluestocking, which is a different application of the same term; the parliament of 1653 was derisively called the bluestocking parliament). The common explanation that they were written on blue paper is not considered valid; pale blue paper was used for many old U.S. legal documents and there would have been nothing notable about its use in this case.

词源不详。俗词源认为因该法规写在蓝色纸上而得名，但是缺乏证据支撑。更为接受的理论认为blue 常带有贬义，如bluestocking，讽刺当时的好学的女人。

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