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单词 swaddling-band
释义

swaddling-bandn.

Forms: usually plural swaddling-bands.
Etymology: See swaddling n. and band n.1, bond n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswaddling-band.
a. = swaddling-clothes n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific people > for children > for a baby > swaddling clothes
sweddlec725
cloutc1175
wind-cloutc1175
swaddlebandc1200
swath-bandsc1315
swath-cloutsc1325
sweddle-cloutc1325
clothesc1340
swathing-clouts1375
swathing-clothesa1382
cradle-band1398
swaddling-banda1400
sweddle-banda1400
swaddle-bind1467
swathing-banda1500
swaddling-clouts1530
swaddling-clothes1535
swaddle1538
swathe1565
sweilling clais1567
swaddle-belt1592
bandel1598
swaddlings1623
swaddle-binding1653
roller1656
α. a1400 [see β. ].
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 300 Their king (as yet an infant in his swathling bands).
β. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 1343 A new-born child..Bunden wid a suadiling band [Trin. Cambr. swaþeling bonde].1560 Bible (Geneva) Job xxxviii. 9 When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenes as the swadeling bandes thereof.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. x. sig. K6 As thou slepst in tender swadling band.1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xxv, in Poems 11 Our Babe to shew his Godhead true, Can in his swadling bands controul the damned crew.1717 M. Prior Alma ii. 389 One People from their swadling Bands Releas'd their Infants Feet and Hands.1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. i. 15 Though many of them [sc. brute animals] be extremely delicate when they come into the world, yet we never find them grow crooked for want of swaddling-bands.
b. figurative and allusively.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s) > place which nurtures early stage
cradle1590
swaddling-band1602
cunabula1864
1602 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus (Arb.) i. i. 7 Then foule faced Vice was in his swadling bands.
1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim (1687) xxix. 347 The Spirit of Man only should..continue a Child, and never be unloosed from its swadling~bands.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. iii. 71 Having laid aside its mask, and cast off its swaddling bands,..it is now become a true representative or image of its species.
1837 J. Chandler Hymns 2 When from the swaddling bands of shade Sprang forth the world so fair.
1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. i. 14 The swaddling-bands of a mistaken kindness..only cramp its energies.
1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) ii. ix. 87 Darkness is necessarily the swaddling-band of mind awakening from nothingness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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