remittance woman
remittance woman noun: a woman paid a remittance to live abroad, especially because considered undesirable at home.
Noun
remittance woman (plural remittance women)
- A woman paid a remittance to live abroad, especially because considered undesirable at home.
- Here, in the western solitude, lived for several years—the veriest remittance woman—the girl who should now, by the right of love and honor, be the Princess of Wales; and whose infant daughter should have been the heir to the throne.1908, Ella Rhoads Higginson, Alaska, The Great Country
- ‘I see her, some years hence, a remittance woman, paid to live abroad, in such an hotel, in various Hotels du Lac, her beautiful face grown gaunt and scornful, her dog permanently under her arm.’1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 81
Forms of remittance woman
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Questions about remittance woman
- What does remittance woman mean?
- Remittance woman means a woman paid a remittance to live abroad, especially because considered undesirable at home.
- What part of speech is remittance woman?
- Remittance woman is a noun.
- What is the plural of remittance woman?
- The plural of remittance woman is remittance women.
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