Swaddling Clothes Definition

swŏdlĭng
noun
Strips of cloth wrapped around a newborn infant to hold its legs and arms still.
American Heritage
The long, narrow bands of cloth wrapped around a newborn baby in former times.
Webster's New World
Restrictions imposed on the immature.
American Heritage

A garment, made of strips of cloth, used to bind an infant and restrict movement of its limbs.

1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version) Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Wiktionary

(idiomatic) An early period in development, infancy, the beginnings of something; inception.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • swaddling bands

Swaddling Clothes Sentence Examples

  • She assured Jerome that, in the church of the Nativity at Bethlehem, she beheld, with the eye of faith, the Christ-child wrapped in swaddling clothes (Ep. 108, 10).

  • To make his life conform to that of Christ, his contemporaries say that he had himself circumcised, wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a cradle, and that he then, clad in a white robe and bare-footed, walked through the streets of Parma crying "Penitenz agite!"

  • She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, be­cause there was no room for them in the inn.

  • It convinces me that Earth is still in her swaddling-clothes, and stretches forth baby fingers on every side.

  • He is clothed in pure, white swaddling clothes which stand out from the darkness of the cave where He has been born.

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