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单词 spindle-side
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spindle-siden.

Etymology: < spindle n., after older Germanic combinations Compare Old Frisian spindelsida, Middle Low German spinelside, German spindelseite; Middle Dutch and Middle Low German spille(n)-, spilside (Dutch spillezijde, German spillseite); also Old English spinlhealf, Middle Low German spillhalbe, Middle Dutch and Old Frisian spindelhant.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspindle-side.
The female line of descent.
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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
1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 526 When..traditions of royalty are deduced through the spindleside, marriages accomplish the most radical of revolutions.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. viii. 243 One whose connexion with Normandy was only by the spindle-side.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 246 Such and such qualities he got from..a great-uncle on the spindle side.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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