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I care little for the pleasures of the table; I only play for my amusement; and I have given up women. There is no chance of my being reckoned, in my old age, among those libidinous grey-beards to whom jilts sell their favours by troy weight.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 3 ch. 1
...I wonder I could not distinguish the behaviour of the unmatron-like jilt whom thou broughtest to betray me, from the worthy lady whom thou hast the honour to call thy aunt...
Clarissa Harlowe (as quoted by Lovelace), Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Formerly: a loose, unchaste woman: harlot.
noun: one who capriciously or unfeelingly drops a lover.