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swaddling clothes
plural noun
- clothes consisting of long, narrow strips of cloth for swaddling an infant.
- long garments for an infant.
- the period of infancy or immaturity, as of a person, or incipience, as of a thing:
Nuclear energy is still in its swaddling clothes.
- rigid supervision or restriction of actions or movements, as of the immature:
new nations that are freeing themselves of their swaddling clothes.
swaddling clothes
plural noun
- long strips of linen or other cloth formerly wrapped round a newly born baby
- restrictions or supervision imposed on the immature
Word History and Origins
Origin of swaddling clothes1
Example Sentences
This is turning into a season of swaddling clothes; of adult snugglies and softness; of clothes so squishy they are like a portable form of self-care.
They are consciously not us — not working from home, not resorting to jeans and swaddling clothes — but they embody our official reference points.
Only on Wednesday, at last, did the Duke and Duchess present their firstborn, wrapped in swaddling clothes, to the prying gaze of the world.
A grateful Mary, mother of God, gave them a piece of the baby's swaddling clothes.
She transformed herself into an astonishingly large hawk, descended on the child, gripped the swaddling clothes in her talons, and lifted the baby into the sky.
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