The distaff version is not nearly as bold.

He had never heard the distaff version of that concept; was there one?

ABC hopes to score again early next year with a distaff version: a Bachelorette will choose among 25 eligible men, but that does not have the same kick to it.

In "Real to Reel," in which Ms. Maleczech appears memorably, Mr. Neumann offers a distaff version of the same genre: the female prison movies popular in the 1950's.

It was the distaff version of Palmer, Nicklaus and Player.

With that premise, a distaff version of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel "Lolita" has set off a legal battle over copyright infringement and the limits of artistic borrowing.

James Tiberius Kirk had been brought down by a distaff version of himself, someone who could captain a starship and give birth.

The cover of their first album, including the font, was designed to be a distaff version of Trans-Europe Express by Kraftwerk.

In the two and a half years since I'd seen her she'd held her own against fat and bad skin--but she still looked like a tough distaff version of Emmett.

It trivializes it to say that 'Our Lady' is simply the distaff version of 'Steward.'