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scarlet woman
scarlet woman n 1. (Bible) New 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 2. any sexually promiscuous woman, esp a prostitute Thesaurusscarlet womannounA woman who engages in sexual intercourse for payment:bawd, call girl, camp follower, courtesan, harlot, prostitute, streetwalker, strumpet, tart, whore.Slang: hooker, moll.Idioms: lady of easy virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the night.scarlet woman
scarlet womanA woman who is ostracized because of promiscuous behavior. Once everyone learned of her affair, she moved away from the city, rather than staying and being labeled a scarlet woman.See also: scarlet, womanscarlet womanA 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. See also: scarlet, womanscarlet woman a notoriously promiscuous or immoral woman. The term was originally applied as a derogatory reference to the Roman Catholic Church, regarded as being devoted to showy ritual. It comes from Revelation 17.See also: scarlet, womanscarlet woman
scarlet woman New 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 scarlet woman
Synonyms for scarlet womannoun a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for paymentSynonyms- bawd
- call girl
- camp follower
- courtesan
- harlot
- prostitute
- streetwalker
- strumpet
- tart
- whore
- hooker
- moll
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