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Definition of Swaddling bands
1. Noun. A garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swaddling Bands
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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