"remittance woman" meaning in English

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      "form": "remittance women",
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          "ref": "1908, Ella Rhoads Higginson, Alaska, The Great Country:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 81:",
          "text": "‘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.’",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A woman paid a remittance to live abroad, especially because considered undesirable at home."
      ],
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          "remittance",
          "remittance"
        ],
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          "abroad",
          "abroad"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly historical) A woman paid a remittance to live abroad, especially because considered undesirable at home."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "remittance woman"
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    {
      "form": "remittance women",
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        {
          "ref": "1908, Ella Rhoads Higginson, Alaska, The Great Country:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 81:",
          "text": "‘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.’",
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        }
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        "A woman paid a remittance to live abroad, especially because considered undesirable at home."
      ],
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        "(chiefly historical) A woman paid a remittance to live abroad, especially because considered undesirable at home."
      ],
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        "historical"
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