Definition of Swaddling bands

1. Noun. A garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant.

Exact synonyms: Swaddling Clothes
Generic synonyms: Garment
Language type: Plural, Plural Form

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swaddling Bands

swabbies
swabbing
swabby
swabs
swack
swacked
swad
swaddies
swaddle
swaddled
swaddler
swaddlers
swaddles
swaddling
swaddling-clothes
swaddling bands (current term)
swaddling clothes
swaddlings
swaddy
swads
swadust mushroom
swag
swagbellied
swagbellies
swagbelly
swage
swage block
swaged
swager
swagers

Literary usage of Swaddling bands

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"... alone show how hard it was even for the vigorous manhood of the seventeenth century to get rid of the swaddling bands of superstition and imposture. ..."

2. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the by Jonathan Eastwood, William Aldis Wright (1884)
"The bandages used in swaddling infants, called also 'swaddling-bands' (Job xxxviii. 9), and ' swaddling-clouts,' as in Shakespeare (Ham. ..."

3. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the National Association of Life by LIfe Underwriters Association of Canada (1906)
"... and by cords of instinct stronger than spiders' webs. leaves stretch themselves, break their swaddling bands, and come out to revel in the balmy breeze. ..."

4. The Worship of the Dead: Or, The Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry and Its by John Garnier (1904)
"She presented her husband with a stone bound in swaddling bands to represent a child.' This stone was called in Grecian mythology ..."

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