GILLIAN NOUN a woman, especially a young woman; a flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman; also, a prostitute ...1573 obs. ETYMOLOGY from the female name Gillian, from Anglo-Norman Giliane, a variant of Juliane, from classical Latin Iūliāna, from Iūlius, a Roman gentile name + -āna, feminine of -ānus -an FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1573 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Some horskeper, lasshith out prouender so, some gillian spendall, so often doth go. for hogs meate & hennes meate, for that & for this: that corne is consumed, er chapman hath his...." From: Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry Vnited to as many of Good Huswiferie first deuised, & nowe lately augemented with diuerse approued lessons concernng Hopps & Gardening, and other Needefull Matters - Thomas Tusser
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