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单词 distaff side
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distaff side
distaff side n. the female branch of a house or family.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > a line of descent > side > female line or side
mother-descent1642
distaff1644
spindle-side1851
spindle1877
distaff side1890
matrilineage1949
matriline1957
1890 Temple Bar Nov. 311 ‘Is there insanity in Byng's blood?’ Not certainly on the distaff side, the side of his eminently sane and wholesome mother.
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