- 看过 distaff 的人也看了 :
- female
- muliebrity
- womanhood
- womankind
- womanliness
- ladylike
- maternal
- womanish
distaff 的 2 个定义
- a staff with a cleft end for holding wool, flax, etc., from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
- a similar attachment on a spinning wheel.
- Archaic. a woman or women collectively.women's work.
- Sometimes Offensive. noting, pertaining to, characteristic of, or suitable for a female.See also distaff side.
distaff 近义词
feminine
femininity
distaff 的近义词 5 个
更多distaff例句
- Indeed, the distaff vote may yet again break Republican this cycle—as it did in 2010—if the polls are to be believed.
- As Maggie in a 1990 production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof she was more than just a slip of distaff Mississippi flesh.
- Behind the bride were carried the distaff and spindle, emblems of domestic life.
- A beautiful young girl was seated near them, with her distaff, spinning gold thread.
- In the morning she took her wheel and spun a whole distaff full; there was still no news.
- The invention of the loom and distaff has been piously ascribed to the gods.
- The ancients were all familiar with the idea of women sometimes exchanging the spindle and distaff for the spear and shield.