yellow ticket

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yellow ticket (plural yellow tickets)

  1. (historical) A personal identification document of a prostitute in the Russian Empire.
    • 1914, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, Crime and Punishment, part I, chapter II:
      “ […] 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.

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