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English
Noun
distaffe (plural distaffes)
- Obsolete spelling of distaff..
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 256:Then hadſt thou had an excellent head of haire. […] Excellent, it hangs like flax on a diſtaffe: & I hope to ſee a huſwife take thee between her legs, & ſpin it off.
c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. (First Quarto), London: Nathaniel Butter, , published 1608, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:I muſt change armes at home, and giue the diſtaffe
Into my Husbands hands, […]
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Noun
distaffe
- Alternative form of distaf