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yellow tickets

yellow tickets is the plural of yellow ticket.

Meaning of yellow ticket

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

Questions about yellow tickets

What is yellow tickets the plural of?
Yellow tickets is the plural of yellow ticket.

Words near yellow tickets in the dictionary

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

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