swaddling-bands

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• swaddling bands — noun a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant • Syn: ↑swaddling clothes • Usage Domain: ↑plural, ↑plural form • Hypernyms: ↑garment …   Useful english dictionary

• swaddling bands — n. piece of clothing for an infant …   English contemporary dictionary

• swaddling band — noun Etymology: Middle English swadeling band : swaddling clothes usually used in plural the swaddling bands by which in darker times the human body was compressed W.E.Channing stifled and strangled in the swaddling bands of mediocrity Nineteenth …   Useful english dictionary

• swaddling clothes — 1. clothes consisting of long, narrow strips of cloth for swaddling an infant. 2. long garments for an infant. 3. the period of infancy or immaturity, as of a person, or incipience, as of a thing: Nuclear energy is still in its swaddling clothes …   Universalium

• swaddling clothes — noun 1. a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant • Syn: ↑swaddling bands • Usage Domain: ↑plural, ↑plural form • Hypernyms: ↑garment 2. restrictions placed on the immature …   Useful english dictionary

• swaddling clothes — ► PLURAL NOUN ▪ cloth bands formerly wrapped round a newborn child to calm it …   English terms dictionary

• swaddling clothes — n. 1. the long, narrow bands of cloth wrapped around a newborn baby in former times 2. rigid controls or restrictions, such as those imposed on infants, the immature, etc …   English World dictionary

• Swaddling — bands medieval to end of 18th century long bandages for wrapping around the body and limbs of an infant giving it the appearance of a mummy. T …   Medieval glossary

• swaddling clothes — swad′dling clothes n. pl. 1) clo Also called swad′dling bands . long, narrow strips of cloth formerly used for swaddling an infant 2) a period of infancy or immaturity 3) rigid supervision, as of the immature …   From formal English to slang

• swaddling clothes — plural noun historical cloth bands wrapped round a newborn child to calm it …   English new terms dictionary

• swad|dling bands — swad|dling clothes, swad|dling bands, or swad|dling clouts «SWOD lihng», 1. a) long, narrow strips of cloth used for wrapping a newborn infant so as to prevent its free movement: »And she brought forth her first born son, and wrapped him in… …   Useful english dictionary