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Definition of Jilters
1. jilter [n] - See also: jilter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jilters
Literary usage of Jilters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Blindman's World and Other Stories by Edward Bellamy (1898)
"Supposing, as you suggest, that we shall be the jilted and not the jilters, it
will be certainly for our interest that the ladies should spare our feelings ..."
2. The Grenville Papers: Being the Correspondence of Richard Grenville, Earl by Richard Grenville-Temple Temple (1853)
"As to your observations on the jilters and heing jilted, I agree perfectly with
you. I own that, with the utmost respect for the character of a virtuous ..."
3. An Introduction to Theoretical and Applied Colloid Chemistry, "the World of by Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald (1922)
"But colloid solutions also behave like ordinary molecular solutions in that they
pass unchanged through paper jilters and even through most of the very fine ..."
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