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Definition of Swaddles
1. swaddle [v] - See also: swaddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swaddles
Literary usage of Swaddles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketches of the Rites and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church by H. C. Romanoff (1868)
"... and lastly the swaddles. This is a long band of lined print, ... inanimate child
remains in swaddles till about a year old, while the lively ones cast ..."
2. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1852)
"... a very den of thieves, and we looked at one another in dismay. Mrs. Peter swaddles
was decidedly melancholy, and Mr. Peter swaddles decidedly savage. ..."
3. Sketches of the Rites and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church by H. C. Romanoff (1868)
"... and lastly the swaddles. This is a long band of lined print, ... inanimate child
remains in swaddles till about a year old, while the lively ones cast ..."
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