"scarlet letter" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 44:",
          "text": "In the early seventeenth century, all the colonies of New England enacted harsh laws against unchastity: banishment, imprisonment, severe public flogging, the wearing of scarlet letters and other shaming garments for the rest of one's life.",
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        "The letter \"A\" in scarlet cloth required to be worn by those convicted of adultery in 17th-century Puritan New England."
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        "(historical) The letter \"A\" in scarlet cloth required to be worn by those convicted of adultery in 17th-century Puritan New England."
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        "(figurative, by extension) A highly visible stigma."
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