Definitions for swaddling-clothes

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swaddling-clothes swaddling clothes

Swaddling-Clothes is a 17 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 4711 anagrams from letters in swaddling-clothes (-acddeghillnosstw).

Definitions for swaddling-clothes

plural noun

1. clothes consisting of long, narrow strips of cloth for swaddling an infant.
2. long garments for an infant.
3. the period of infancy or immaturity, as of a person, or incipience, as of a thing:
4. rigid supervision or restriction of actions or movements, as of the immature:

Origin of swaddling-clothes

First recorded in 1525-35

Examples for swaddling-clothes

She had seen the water there ever since she had been a babe in swaddling clothes.

She crossed the room to the window, and removed a layer of swaddling clothes very gently.

But you and I have thrown off the swaddling clothes in which we were reared.

In 1822 the Mexican nation was still in its swaddling clothes.

Remember, dear lady, that Democracy is a babe not yet out of swaddling clothes.

They are still wrapped in the swaddling clothes of politics.

You've got a big idea, but it's not out of swaddling clothes.

How is it possible for a child who has never been out of swaddling clothes to walk?

Even the babies in swaddling clothes are gone to the vineyards!

First, He was "wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger."