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swaddling clothes

  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.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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