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† ˈswathing-clothes, n. pl. Obs.
= swaddling-clothes.
1382Wyclif Wisd. vii. 4, I was nurshid in swathing clothis. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia ii. (1895) 162 They maye laye downe the yong infauntes..take them out of their swathynge clothes and holde them to the fyere, and refreshe them with playe. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 112 Thrice hath the Hotspur Mars, in swathing Clothes, This Infant Warrior..Discomfited great Dowglas. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Aube, En mes aubes, in my infancie, or swathing clothes; when I was in my cradle. |