Meanings
plural yellow tickets
- historicalA 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 IISynonyms: yellow card, yellow passport
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA personal identification document of a prostitute in the Russian Empire.
Translations
Russian жёлтый биле́т
- жёлтый биле́т (žóltyj bilét)personal identification document of a prostitute in the Russian Empire
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