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distaff side
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distaff side
affiliation, agnate, ancestry, apparentation, birth, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bloodline, branch, breed, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, common ancestry, connections, consanguinean, consanguinity, derivation, descent, direct line, distant relation, enate, extraction, fair sex, family, female line, female sex, femininity, filiation, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, german, house, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, line, line of descent, lineage, male line, near relation, next of kin, people, phylum, posterity, race, relations, relatives, second sex, seed, sept, sib, sibling, side, softer sex, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, succession, sword side, tribesman, uterine kin, weaker sex, weaker vessel, woman, womanhood, womankind, women, womenfolk, womenfolksFor further exploring for "distaff side" in Webster Dictionary Online