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distaff

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɪstɑːf/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted adffistStarts with DEnds with F0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. characteristic of or peculiar to a woman

Used in a sentence

  • Then hadſt thou had an excellent head of haire. […] Excellent, it hangs like flax on a diſtaffe: & I hope to ſee a huſwife take thee between her legs, & ſpin it off.
  • I muſt change armes at home, and giue the diſtaffe Into my Husbands hands, […]
  • Henry knew. If he were blackballed by this distaff Mafia, he was doomed: Endless, but always justifiable, delays would occur in the work he wanted typed.

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