scarlet letter

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   the letter A in red; Puritans required adulterers to wear it

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Questions about scarlet letter

What does scarlet letter mean?

scarlet letter means "the letter A in red; Puritans required adulterers to wear it".

Is scarlet letter a common word?

scarlet letter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.