distaff side
Example Sentences
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On the distaff side, Claire Messud gives us “The Burning Girl,” a kind of teen companion to “The Woman Upstairs,” her 2013 masterpiece about adult female friendship.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2017
More details from the WSJ/NBC News poll: Another poll, from Fox News, finds Mrs. Clinton on the distaff side of a “gender gap” among Democrats—and quite a gap it is.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2015
On the distaff side, last year’s winner, Mary Cain, returns to defend her crown.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 13, 2015
At the moment several new factors are combining to favour the distaff side more.
From Economist ● Jul. 7, 2011
For her—the daughter of a far mightier king than Aegeus, and, on the distaff side, the granddaughter of Apollo—even marriage with Theseus would have been a me'salliance.
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
