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scarlet letter definition

☆ 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.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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