- 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 swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger (Luke 2:7).
b) long clothes for an infant.2. Figurative. a) the earliest period of existence of a person or thing, when movement or action is restricted; infancy. b) the restrictions so imposed.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.