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☆ scarlet letter
a scarlet letter A formerly worn by a person convicted of adultery
Etymology: < the novel The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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