distaff

Example Sentences

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Kenyans have won the last four men’s races in Boston and three straight in the distaff division.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

Among them are delicate wooden items such as a small, wood-turned bit for a lamb or goat and a carved distaff for spinning wool - even a Bronze Age ski.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2020

The premise, right away, appears to be a distaff version of “Groundhog Day,” that classic Zen Buddhist romantic comedy, in which “I Got You, Babe” keeps playing, eternally, at 6 a.m.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 28, 2019

But the distaff kept moving into what had been pasture.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2018

So Phylo rolled it in to stand beside her, heaped with fine spun stuff, and cradled on it the distaff swathed in dusky violet wool.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer