| 单词 | scarlet woman |
| 释义 | scarlet womanSEE SYNONYMS FOR scarlet woman ON THESAURUS.COM nouna sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery. a symbol of pagan Rome or, derogatorily, of the church of Rome. Origin of scarlet womanFirst recorded in 1810–20; from Revelations 17:1-6 in the Bible, in which the whore of Babylon is described as dressed in scarlet and purple Words nearby scarlet womanscarlet pimpernel, scarlet red, scarlet runner, scarlet sage, scarlet tanager, scarlet woman, scarp, Scarpa, Scarpa's fascia, Scarpa's fluid, Scarpa's foramen Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for scarlet womanscarlet woman nounNew Testament a sinful woman described in Revelation 17, interpreted as a figure either of pagan Rome or of the Roman Catholic Church regarded as typifying vice overlaid with gaudy pageantry any sexually promiscuous woman, esp a prostitute Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with scarlet womanscarlet woman A prostitute, an immoral woman, as in Malicious gossip had it that she was a scarlet woman, which was quite untrue. This expression first appeared in Revelation 17:5, describing Saint John's vision of a woman in scarlet clothes with an inscription on her forehead, “Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.” Some interpreters believe she stood for Rome, drunk with the blood of saints, but by about 1700 the term was being used more generally for a woman with loose morals. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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