prohibited article

The principal ones of our country are rice and indigo; tobacco is a prohibited article.

His proposal that the foreign agents deliver up their stores of “the prohibited article” did not meet with an immediate response.

"Please give me some butter," asked Bert, not having observed that this was a prohibited article on the Wilsons' dinner table.

The salesmen were to be searched going and returning, and if any prohibited article were found, the shops were to be closed.

The officers were never successful in entirely banishing the prohibited article.