Usage History of 'distaff'

The following chart shows how frequently 'distaff' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'distaff' occurred 8 times in books in 1673 and 12,576 times in 2008. From 1673 to 2008, the word 'distaff' was used a total of 253,281 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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