单词 | spindle-side |
释义 | spindle-siden. The female line of descent. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1851 |
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