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Definition of Distaffs
1. distaff [n] - See also: distaff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distaffs
Literary usage of Distaffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... that as their mangled bodies were dragged through the streets, they were
pierced (such was the universal rage) by the spits of cooks, and the distaffs ..."
2. The Medical Times and Gazette (1858)
"But we have certainly yet to learn, that the utmost stretch of liberal sentiment
requires us to sit down in quiet fellowship, as Curers of distaffs, ..."
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