Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swaddling-bands.
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- noun Alternative form of
swaddling clothes .
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Examples
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The biceps of Hercules was a puny affair when he rolled about in swaddling-clothes.
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"One feels," Leon Edel wrote, "that she doffed her swaddling-clothes but to don a spiritual straitjacket."
The Admirable Mrs. James Colm T&243;ib&237;n 2009
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In vain it seems these breasts did suckle thee, wrapped in thy swaddling-clothes; all for naught I used to toil and wore myself away!
The Trojan Women 2008
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One day, there was brought to him in a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in swaddling-clothes, which a servant-maid, dismissed six months previously, attributed to him.
Les Miserables 2008
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In vain it seems these breasts did suckle thee, wrapped in thy swaddling-clothes; all for naught I used to toil and wore myself away!
The Trojan Women 2008
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I knew it in its swaddling-clothes, than in maturer age.
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Are not you and I, Jack, innocent men, and babes in swaddling-clothes, compared to Caesar, and to his predecessor in heroism, Alexander, dubbed, for murders and depredation,
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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It convinces me that Earth is still in her swaddling-clothes, and stretches forth baby fingers on every side.
Walden 2004
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For a long time now, I have carried the children in swaddling-clothes into the town, so for once in a way I can fetch a little prince out of the well.
Household Tales 2003
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They wrap up the children in swaddling-clothes, and carry them behind their backs when they go out.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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