Scarlett

name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as an occupation for a dyer or seller of (scarlet) fabric.

    "For Scarlett and Scarlett's three hundred were riding by When the points of the Russian lances arose in the sky;"

  2. 2
    A female given name transferred from the surname, of general post-1936 usage.

    "'There now, Scarlett! You admit it is true. What would you be doing with a husband like Ashley? 'Tis moonstruck they all are, all the Wilkes.'"

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"Miss Scarlett was killed with a candlestick in the ballroom."

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