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单词 swaddling clothes
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
swaddling clothes′, 
    1. Clothingclothes consisting of long, narrow strips of cloth for swaddling an infant.
    2. Clothinglong garments for an infant.
    3. the period of infancy or immaturity, as of a person, or incipience, as of a thing:Nuclear energy is still in its swaddling clothes.
    4. rigid supervision or restriction of actions or movements, as of the immature:new nations that are freeing themselves of their swaddling clothes.Also called swaddling bands′ (for defs. 1, 2).
    • 1525–35

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
swaddling clothes pl n
  1. long strips of linen or other cloth formerly wrapped round a newly born baby
  2. restrictions or supervision imposed on the immature
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