distaff
adjective uk/ˈdɪs.tɑːf/ us/ˈdɪs.tæf/
女性的
involving women; female
Giro d'Italia femminile is the distaff version of the famed cycling race. 环意大利女子自行车赛是这项著名自行车比赛的女性版本。
the distaff side （家族的）母系，女系;（群体中的）女性成员
female members of a family; especially used to talk about people related to someone through their mother
In 1948 Joanna's grandmother on the distaff side won the title. 1948年，乔安娜的外祖母赢得了冠军。
He had hoped that the heirloom might be passed through the distaff side to his beloved daughter.
She objects to the tradition that prevents names being inherited via the distaff side.
On the distaff side, certainly, we're a very long-lived family.
My grandmother on the distaff side was French.
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- The sandwich shop she's opening is a distaff alternative to the town's male-dominated coffee shop culture.
- The New Jersey-born actress is among the legion of distaff comics proving women are funny.
- At 15 she formed her first band, the distaff post-grunge outfit Helen.
- Now his son was dead, he wanted to find out whether the family title could be passed through the distaff side to his daughter.
distaff
noun [ C ] uk/ˈdɪs.tɑːf/ us/ˈdɪs.tæf/
（手工）纺纱杆
in the past, a stick onto which wool or flax (= fibre from a plant) was twisted for spinning (= making thread)
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- In times past, the spinning process began with the placement of fibers (such as flax) on an implement called a distaff.
- What concord could there be between scholars and domestics, between books and distaffs, between the pen and the spindle?
- The woman has her spindle and distaff, her hands are busy with the threads she is winding.
- No great strength is needed to carry a comb, or to handle a distaff, or to sit by a loom.
- A woman playeth the housewife, she spinneth on her distaff.