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  • 11Swaddling Songs — Infobox Album Name = Swaddling Songs Type = studio Artist = Mellow Candle Released = start date|1972|4 Recorded = start date|1971|12 Genre = folk rock, progressive folk Length = 42:57 Label = Deram Records Producer = David Hitchcock Reviews =… …

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  • 12swaddling clothes — 1. clothes consisting of long, narrow strips of cloth for swaddling an infant. 2. long garments for an infant. 3. the period of infancy or immaturity, as of a person, or incipience, as of a thing: Nuclear energy is still in its swaddling clothes …

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  • 13swaddling clothes — noun 1. a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant • Syn: ↑swaddling bands • Usage Domain: ↑plural, ↑plural form • Hypernyms: ↑garment 2. restrictions placed on the immature …

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  • 14swaddling band — noun Etymology: Middle English swadeling 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 …

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  • 15swaddling clothes — noun A garment, made of strips of cloth, used to bind an infant and restrict movement of its limbs Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for… …

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  • 16swaddling clothes — swad′dling clothes n. pl. 1) clo Also called swad′dling bands . long, narrow strips of cloth formerly used for swaddling an infant 2) a period of infancy or immaturity 3) rigid supervision, as of the immature …

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  • 17swaddling clothes — /ˈswɒdlɪŋ ˌkloʊðz/ (say swodling .klohdhz) plural noun 1. clothes consisting of long, narrow strips of cloth for swaddling an infant. 2. long clothes for an infant. 3. the earliest period of existence of a person or thing; a period of infancy,… …

  • 18swaddling bands — noun a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant • Syn: ↑swaddling clothes • Usage Domain: ↑plural, ↑plural form • Hypernyms: ↑garment …

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  • 19swaddling-band — swaddˈling band or swaddˈling clothes noun (Bible) A strip or strips of cloth for swaddling an infant • • • Main Entry: ↑swaddle …

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  • 20swaddling-clothes — swaddˈling band or swaddˈling clothes noun (Bible) A strip or strips of cloth for swaddling an infant • • • Main Entry: ↑swaddle …

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