Origin of scarlet woman 1. She was the scarlet woman of midth century Paris, damned by her contemporaries and by literary historians ever since.
Then we're going to celebrate by taking him over to the theater and making him see 'The Scarlet Woman. To the non-compromiser, the "scarlet woman" is a symbol of the lowest depth of vice, and no condemnation is too severe for her. Mrs Stumfold had once met Mr Paul, and called him to his face the most abject of all the slaves of the scarlet woman.
To the sophisticated its allurements are those of the scarlet woman, to the innocent its voice is the voice of Joy. I did not guess then that there was anything between him and the Scarlet Woman who railed at Bigot. Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary. Skip to. View synonyms for scarlet woman. American British. 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.
Discover More Idioms and Phrases A prostitute, an immoral woman, as in Malicious gossip had it that she was a scarlet woman, which was quite untrue. Discover More Example Sentences She was the scarlet woman of midth century Paris, damned by her contemporaries and by literary historians ever since.
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