scarlet letter

scarlet letter

noun
a scarlet letter “A,” formerly worn by one convicted of adultery.

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism

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Scarlet letter is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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Scarlet Letter, The

noun
a novel (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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scarlet letter
 
n
(esp among US Puritans) a scarlet letter A formerly worn by a person convicted of adultery

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