Timeline for "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?"
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| S Apr 18, 2022 at 20:54 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2015 at 16:03 | comment | added | Fattie | @martha, I think you should just boldly edit this (totally superb) answer. As you explain, "eve span" refers to her spinning thread. The comments about weaving etc. are incorrect. The answer is otherwise wholly superb so you should just edit it, since it looks like Uti. is taking a break. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 15:58 | comment | added | Fattie | A man'a a man for a that! | |
| Oct 28, 2013 at 18:36 | comment | added | Uticensis | @Marthaª no doubt knows better than me. Could I fix this? | |
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| Nov 27, 2012 at 18:32 | comment | added | Marthaª | Spinning was women's work. Weaving and tailoring, not so much. Not so long ago, almost all women spent all their available free minutes spinning, because it takes a damn lot of thread to make fabric. However, in many places that thread would then be delivered to a weaver to be made into cloth, and then taken from the weaver to a tailor to be made into clothes. Both of those were specific occupations, as likely to be held by a man as a woman. Also, spinning requires a spindle (and for some fiber types, a distaff); neither of those is needed for weaving. | |
| Nov 12, 2012 at 19:40 | comment | added | T.E.D. | +1 - "Gentleman" in fact used to essentially mean "a man who doesn't have to work for a living". My impression is that folks like P.T. Barnum, by using it regularly as outrageous flattery, started the modern corruption of the meaning down to "a polite word for man". | |
| May 6, 2011 at 17:20 | vote | accept | Uticensis | ||
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| Apr 30, 2011 at 11:22 | history | edited | Uticensis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 30, 2011 at 10:59 | history | answered | Uticensis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |