Distaff
Female
Female adjective - Of, relating to, or marked by qualities traditionally associated with women.
Usage example: female standards of housekeeping imposed by the women at the vacation cottage weren't especially popular with the men
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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In other words, the male character or characters may have little or no stereotypical masculinizing gender specifiers, but his or their distaff counterpart or counterparts will have stereotypical feminizing gender specifiers to mark them as female.
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Distaff Counterpart: Ultraprison is a women's prison staffed by female counterparts to the characters, including a female-to-male transsexual counterpart for Alice.
Source: Western Animation / Superjail! - They're also a One-Gender Race to boot, being all-female and a good Distaff Counterpart to the orks of the setting.
Source: Literature / Hic Sunt Dracones
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Female and Distaff. (2016). Retrieved 2022, June 25, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/distaff/female
Distaff & Female. N.p., 2016. Web. 25 Jun. 2022. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/distaff/female>.
Female or Distaff. 2016. Accessed June 25, 2022. https://thesaurus.plus/related/distaff/female.
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