SINCE 1828
swaddling band
nounDefinition of swaddling band
: swaddling clothes
—usually used in plural the swaddling bands by which in darker times the human body was compressed— W. E. Channingstifled and strangled in the swaddling bands of mediocrity — Nineteenth Century & After
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