swaddling clothes

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swaddling clothes

noun

  1. plural, plural only A garment, made of strips of cloth, used to bind an infant and restrict movement of its limbs.
  2. idiomatic, plural, plural only An early period in development, infancy, the beginnings of something; inception. The steel—industry wore swaddling clothes when the first walkout occurred exactly 100 years ago.

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noun garment

Españolempañadura
中文襁褓 qiǎngbǎo
Portuguêsmanta
Françaislanges
Ελληνικάφάσκιωμα fáskioma
Românăfașă
Русскийпелёнки peljónki, свива́льники sviválʹniki

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@misc{swaddling_clothes_2026,
  title = {swaddling clothes},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/swaddling%20clothes},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}