prohibited article

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The temporary powers allow police officers to search those they believe to be under "reasonable suspicion" of committing a crime, planning to commit a crime or in possession of a "prohibited article".

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2025

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

From Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret by Alger, Horatio

We were asked whether our knapsacks contained any prohibited article?

From Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by Gleig, G. R. (George Robert)

After receiving the sum agreed upon between the importer and themselves they frequently become the purchasers of the prohibited article.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

It being a prohibited article at Vienna, the merchant whom he applied to, observed that he did not sell it.

From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 by Harrison, James