English Explanatory Dictionary

scarlet letter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The letter "A" in scarlet cloth required to be worn by those convicted of adultery in 17th-century Puritan New England.
  2. A highly visible stigma.

Word forms

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