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noun

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

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism

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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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