swaddling clothes
plural noun
1
: narrow strips of cloth wrapped around an infant to restrict movement
2
: limitations or restrictions imposed on the immature or inexperienced
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The father and son walk through their inhospitable world dressed like the Christ child, in swaddling clothes, with no place to lay their heads.
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Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
This is pure prosecco fun from a family that has been making wine in Italy since Mary Queen of Scots was in swaddling clothes.
—Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2022
Jesus’ swaddling clothes prefigure his freeing us from death’s winding sheets.
—Alexandra Mullen, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
Yet in every variation the meaning shone through, as durable as a soul, wrapped in swaddling clothes.
—Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
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Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
This is pure prosecco fun from a family that has been making wine in Italy since Mary Queen of Scots was in swaddling clothes.
—Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2022
Jesus’ swaddling clothes prefigure his freeing us from death’s winding sheets.
—Alexandra Mullen, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
Yet in every variation the meaning shone through, as durable as a soul, wrapped in swaddling clothes.
—Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
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