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Перевод: distaff
[существительное]
ручная прялка; женщины ; прялка ; женская работа; женское дело
Тезаурус:
- They are wooden galleries beneath extended eaves in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century farmhouses, and were probably designed for storage purposes originally, but were undoubtedly used in summer by the womenfolk in their cottage industry of spinning the wool of the local Herdwick sheep with spinning wheel and distaff.
- This eighteenth-century fascination with funerary exactitude was not limited to the distaff side of society.
- The cane distaff is not unusual and would be required for spinning flax.
- Writers often mistakenly use such terms as "women spinning with their distaff."
- It may be too that in the lower regions of society women were freer to find at least part-time employment: the distaff provided occupation for almost all, and even if the invention of the spinning wheel may have reduced the opportunities for some, it enormously increased those of others.
- One such being St. Distaff's Day, 7th January:
- There is considerable confusion about the use of the distaff, sometimes referred to as a Rock, probably because of the old terms "Distaff and Spear" sides of the family.
- One thing that marks the Carpenters out is their uncanny fondness for incorporating the names of distaff families into their own; from the early days of the 18th century we can spot the Frome and Rodden Carpenters by their use of the name "Thynn" as a first or second Christian name for boys, and even in the middle years of the 19th century a branch of the family in London called one son Starmer Thynne Carpenter.
- There is also a picture ( Church and School of the Carita ) by Canaletto in the National Gallery, London, of a woman on a balcony with a distaff and spun thread in her hand, which lends further credence to the idea.
- Doubtless because of strong objections from the distaff side, Becke's truly Christian comment was not repeated in later editions.
- "Give St. Distaff all the right
- Actually, a distaff takes no part in the twisting of fleece or flax to produce thread.
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