swaddling-clothesn.

Etymology: swaddling n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswaddling-clothes.

With plural agreement. Clothes consisting of narrow lengths of bandage wrapped round a new-born infant's limbs to prevent free movement. Also transferred an infant's long-clothes. Now chiefly figurative or allusively in reference to the earliest period of the existence of a person or thing, when movement or action is restricted.

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1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Le Berceau d'vn enfant, les langes & petits drapeaux, a childes cradle, and swatheling clothes.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 112 This Hotspur Mars in swathling cloaths [1623 swathing Clothes], This infant warrier.

1612 R. Carpenter Soules Sentinel 84 Some lie in their sinnes as children in their swathling cloathes.

β. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke ii. 7 She brought forth hir first begotten sonne, & wrapped him in swadlinge clothes, and layed him in a maunger.1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 48^v Miracles serued the Church in her swadlyng clothes.a1592 R. Greene Alcida (1617) sig. E3 How did fortune frowne that thou wert not stifled in thy swadling cloathes?1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe Ep. Ded. sig. A3 This Encomion of the king of fishes was predestinate to thee from thy swadling clothes.1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 47 They take care that even their Sucking Children in Swadling Cloaths do not defile themselves.1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iii. 14 A Child in Swaddling-Cloaths.1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 442 He was for many ages in swaddling clothes, begirt by the Druids with the bands of superstition.1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. ii. 20 I have never seen him since I was in swaddling-clothes.1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law ii. 27 To understand how society would ever have escaped from its swaddling-clothes.1886 H. Caine Son of Hagar i. viii A great child just out of swaddling-clothes.1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 834 The efficacy of this treatment of snake-poisoning..seems then undoubted; but it is not yet in a position to put off the swaddling-clothes of the laboratory.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	swaddling-clothes
释义	swaddling-clothesn. Etymology: swaddling n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswaddling-clothes. With plural agreement. Clothes consisting of narrow lengths of bandage wrapped round a new-born infant's limbs to prevent free movement. Also transferred an infant's long-clothes. Now chiefly figurative or allusively in reference to the earliest period of the existence of a person or thing, when movement or action is restricted. 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. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Le Berceau d'vn enfant, les langes & petits drapeaux, a childes cradle, and swatheling clothes. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 112 This Hotspur Mars in swathling cloaths [1623 swathing Clothes], This infant warrier. View more context for this quotation 1612 R. Carpenter Soules Sentinel 84 Some lie in their sinnes as children in their swathling cloathes. β. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke ii. 7 She brought forth hir first begotten sonne, & wrapped him in swadlinge clothes, and layed him in a maunger.1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 48^v Miracles serued the Church in her swadlyng clothes.a1592 R. Greene Alcida (1617) sig. E3 How did fortune frowne that thou wert not stifled in thy swadling cloathes?1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe Ep. Ded. sig. A3 This Encomion of the king of fishes was predestinate to thee from thy swadling clothes.1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 47 They take care that even their Sucking Children in Swadling Cloaths do not defile themselves.1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iii. 14 A Child in Swaddling-Cloaths.1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 442 He was for many ages in swaddling clothes, begirt by the Druids with the bands of superstition.1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. ii. 20 I have never seen him since I was in swaddling-clothes.1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law ii. 27 To understand how society would ever have escaped from its swaddling-clothes.1886 H. Caine Son of Hagar i. viii A great child just out of swaddling-clothes.1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 834 The efficacy of this treatment of snake-poisoning..seems then undoubted; but it is not yet in a position to put off the swaddling-clothes of the laboratory. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1535
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