swaddling clothes
Noun
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Noun
- A garment, made of strips of cloth, used to bind an infant and restrict movement of its limbs.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗:Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn
- (idiomatic) An early period in development, infancy, the beginnings of something; inception.
- 1952, Steel Industry Union Strife Has Been In Progress For Even Century ↗, "The Day" issue of June the 4th, 1952
- The steel—industry wore swaddling clothes when the first walkout occurred exactly 100 years ago.
- 1954, Academy Site May Be Chosen May 15 ↗, St Petersburg Times, 11 May issue
- The Air Force Academy, baby brother to West Point and Annapolis, is crawling out of its swaddling clothes.
- 1952, Steel Industry Union Strife Has Been In Progress For Even Century ↗, "The Day" issue of June the 4th, 1952
- French: langes
- Russian: пелёнки
- Spanish: empañadura
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