Meaning: A prostitute.
Genesis 34:31
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
James 2:25
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
Originally meant a young pilgrim.
"He was a gentil harlot, and a kinde
a bettre felow shulde man no wher finde"
Chaucer