Scarlett

See also: Scarlet and scarlet

English edit

Scarlett (plural Scarletts)

A surname originating as an occupation for a dyer or seller of (scarlet) fabric.
- 1854, Alfred Tennyson, The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava:
  For Scarlett and Scarlett's three hundred were riding by
  When the points of the Russian lances arose in the sky;
A female given name transferred from the surname, of general post-1936 usage.
- 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter III, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
  'There now, Scarlett! You admit it is true. What would you be doing with a husband like Ashley? 'Tis moonstruck they all are, all the Wilkes.'

surname

female given name