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yellow ticket

yellow ticket noun: a personal identification document of a prostitute in the Russian Empire.

Noun

yellow ticket (plural yellow tickets)

  1. (historical) A personal identification document of a prostitute in the Russian Empire.
    • “[…] When my own daughter first went out with a yellow ticket, then I had to go... (for my daughter has a yellow passport),” he added in parenthesis, looking with a certain uneasiness at the young man.1914, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, Crime and Punishment, part I, chapter II

Synonyms of yellow ticket

Forms of yellow ticket

pluralyellow tickets

Questions about yellow ticket

What does yellow ticket mean?
Yellow ticket means a personal identification document of a prostitute in the Russian Empire.
What part of speech is yellow ticket?
Yellow ticket is a noun.
What is the plural of yellow ticket?
The plural of yellow ticket is yellow tickets.

Words near yellow ticket in the dictionary

  1. Yellow Tavern
  2. yellow tea
  3. yellow teas
  4. yellow terror
  5. yellow thistle
  6. yellow ticket
  7. yellow tickets
  8. yellow tit
  9. yellow tits
  10. yellow toadflax
  11. yellow toadflaxes

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