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swaddling band
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Definition of swaddling band
: swaddling clothes —usually used in plural the swaddling bands by which in darker times the human body was compressed — W. E. Channing stifled and strangled in the swaddling bands of mediocrity — Nineteenth Century & After
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Origin and Etymology of swaddling band
Middle English swadeling band
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