Meaning of remittance woman | Babel Free

Definitions

A woman paid a remittance to live abroad, especially because considered undesirable at home.

historical

Examples

“Here, in the western solitude, lived for several years—the veriest remittance woman—the girl who should now, by the right of love and honor, be the Princess of Wales; and whose infant daughter should have been the heir to the throne.”

“‘I see her, some years hence, a remittance woman, paid to live abroad, in such an hotel, in various Hotels du Lac, her beautiful face grown gaunt and scornful, her dog permanently under her arm.’”

CEFR level