| 单词 | distaff-woman | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasdistaff-woman  C1.   attributive and in other combinations, as  distaff-business,  distaff-right,  distaff-woman. ΚΠ 1597    W. Shakespeare Richard II  iii. ii. 114  				Against thy state, Yea distaffe women mannage rustie  bils.       View more context for this quotation ?1608    S. Lennard tr.  P. Charron Of Wisdome  iii. vii. 432  				This inconuenience followeth the friendship of maried cupples, that it is mingled with so many other strange matters, children, parents of the one side & the other, and so many other distaffe busines that doe many times trouble and interrupt a liuely affection. 1895    F. Pollock  & F. W. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law II. 305  				For a male to get a share by ‘distaff right’ [L. iure coli] was by no means uncommon. < as lemmas | 
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