Usually means: Inheritance traced through female lineage.
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  1. descent by distaff: Wordnik
  2. Descent by distaff: Dictionary.com
  3. descent by distaff: FreeDictionary.org
  4. Descent by distaff: TheFreeDictionary.com

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