List of synonyms from "dissolution" to synonyms from "distinction"
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Definition of the day : « distaff »
- adj feminine
- noun femininity
- They may find they have more tow on their distaff than they know how to spin.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Thus are they represented on a medal, each with a distaff in her hand.
- Extract from : « Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology » by Charles K. Dillaway
- Then Wainamoinen took the pieces of her distaff and set to work.
- Extract from : « Finnish Legends for English Children » by R. Eivind
- The improvement on the distaff and spindle was the spinning wheel.
- Extract from : « Textiles » by William H. Dooley
- What followed the distaff and spindle in the development of spinning?
- Extract from : « Textiles » by William H. Dooley
- This distaff, which I have taken at random, decides the fate of all who are born while I am spinning it.
- Extract from : « Laboulaye's Fairy Book » by Various
- She answered the third without hesitation, that it was a Distaff.
- Extract from : « Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers » by Various
- The door was open, and he saw a girl at work with her distaff.
- Extract from : « Zanoni » by Edward Bulwer Lytton
- “There is meetness in all things,” said the old lady, picking up her distaff.
- Extract from : « The White Rose of Langley » by Emily Sarah Holt
- The distaff had to be recovered before the question could be considered.
- Extract from : « The White Rose of Langley » by Emily Sarah Holt