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wolf's_ticket

wolf's ticket

See also: wolf ticket

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Noun

wolf's ticket (plural wolf's tickets)

  1. (rare, historical) In tsarist and Stalinist-era Russia, a restricted internal passport issued to those suspected or convicted of political or other crimes which limited where they could travel and reside.
    • 1967, Konstantin Paustovsky, The Story of a Life, volume 3, page 241:
      [] now, we had narrowly escaped a terrible danger : absolutely certain expulsion with wolf's tickets two days before our graduation from the gymnasium.

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