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Scarlet letter   /skˈɑrlət lˈɛtər/   Listen
Scarlet letter

noun
1.
The letter A in red; Puritans required adulterers to wear it.






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"Scarlet letter" Quotes from Famous Books



... Marco Bozzaris, Dana's Buccaneers, Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal, and Biglow Papers, Whittier's Mogg Megone, Holmes's Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, Taylor's Amram's Wooing, Emerson's Concord Hymn, etc., etc. Then, too, some critics rank as prose epics Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Poe's Fall of the House of Usher, Hale's Man Without a Country, Bret Harte's Luck of Roaring Camp, Helen ...
— The Book of the Epic • Helene A. Guerber



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