Lexicographical Neighbors of Distaves
Literary usage of Distaves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grammatical Synthesis: The Art of English Composition by Henry Noble Day (1870)
"... Bat compounds not accented on the final syllable, simply add s, as flag-staff"-t,
distaff-si so house-wife-t is pronounced Formerly distaves, as, ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"Tradesmen left their shops, women their distaves, servants run from their masters,
children from their parents, ..."
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