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Significats de distaff en anglès

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кенуй
portuguès
roca de fiar
català
filosa
espanyol
rueca

Stick or staff for holding fibre to be spun.

filosa

Characteristic of or peculiar to a woman.

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Examples for "female"
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Results: All health risk behaviours were common among male and female adolescents.
Pubmed
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These days, however, the future of crime fiction is looking fabulously female.
News.com.au
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If you thought female body image was a contemporary problem, think again.
The Guardian
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The operation, including 70 female officers, was intended to protect public health.
The Irish Times
5
In the male, they are the testes; in the female, the ovaries.
The Glands Regulating Personality / A Study of the Glands of Int...
Ús de distaff en anglès
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Queen Halcyone dropped her distaff and looked in fear at the king.
Stories of Birds
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She disdained to put her hand to the needle and the distaff.
Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volum...
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The sheep-brother stayed behind grazing while she went to get the distaff.
Armenian Literature: Comprising Poetry, Drama, Folk-lore and Cla...
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Then Wainamoinen took the pieces of her distaff and set to work.
Finnish Legends for English Children
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She twists it round her distaff and spins it with her spindle.
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 2
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Once her distaff fell from her hand and rolled into a cavern.
Armenian Literature: Comprising Poetry, Drama, Folk-lore and Cla...
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The flax, Mother would mass upon her distaff and spin into threads.
My Boyhood
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But I certainly told her that she had better mind her distaff.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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Would it have a lighter battery to compensate for a distaff rider?
Wired
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Her right hand held a spear, and her left a distaff and spindle.
Helen of troy
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The improvement on the distaff and spindle was the spinning wheel.
Textiles, for Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools ...
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But no group raised the temperance banner higher than the nation's distaff side.
The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
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She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
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What followed the distaff and spindle in the development of spinning?
Textiles, for Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools ...
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The maid of Domrémy was about to change her distaff for an oriflamme.
Wanderings by Southern Waters, Eastern Aquitaine
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Even at the distaff I recognize Alcides, whether for evil or for good.
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
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Translations for distaff
portuguès
roca de fiar
català
filosa
espanyol
rueca
Distaff a través del temps
Distaff per variant geogràfica
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