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swaddling band

noun

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: 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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Middle English swadeling band

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