leading-string

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leading-string

noun leading-strings

historical, plural normally Strings with which children were formerly guided while they were learning to walk. her lover [...] treated me in all respects as a perfect infant. To say the truth, I wonder she had not insisted on my again wearing leading-strings.

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noun strings with which children were formerly guided while they were learning to walk

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@misc{leading_string_2026,
  title = {leading-string},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/leading-string},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}