Sentences with distaff
dis·taff
D d - Offensive to distaff members of the audience
- 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Noble Bachelor”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2011 : They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on the distaff side.
- Brawne's talent as a designer and dressmaker provides a distaff parallel for Keats's world of language and imagination.
- The only distaff member of the chat squad, Patty Sheehan, may have tired of all this jackhammer chivalry after a while.