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scarlet woman
[ skahr-lit woom-uhn ]
noun
- a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- a symbol of pagan Rome or, derogatorily, of the church of Rome.
scarlet woman
noun
- 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
- any sexually promiscuous woman, esp a prostitute
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of scarlet woman1
Idioms and Phrases
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, 鈥淢ystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.鈥 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.Example Sentences
You would see movies with Bette Davis in them, and just because she wore a red gown, she was, "Oh, a scarlet woman, a red gown."
鈥淭his focus portrayed Ms. Andrew as a scarlet woman, a modern Jezebel, sparking distrust based on her loose morals. The drumbeat on Ms. Andrew鈥檚 sex life continued in closing argument, plucking away any realistic chance that the jury would seriously consider her version of events.鈥
Susan Bradshaw as a scarlet woman?
We were English, and so had only those morally laden English words to deal with: words like scarlet woman, and adulteress.鈥
The I, Tonya star remained a scarlet woman at the Vanity Fair party... from the waist down at least.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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