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distaff

mastery

UK /ˈdɪstɑːf/ US /ˈdɪstæf/nounadj

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Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral— […] They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on the distaff side.