yellow ticket

yellow ticket

English

Noun

yellow ticket (plural yellow tickets)

1. (historical) A personal identification document of a prostitute in the Russian Empire.
   • 1914, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (author), Constance Garnett (translator), 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.

Synonyms

• yellow card, yellow passport

Translations

personal identification document of a prostitute in the Russian Empire

Russian: жёлтый биле́т m (žóltyj bilét)