Swaddling-clothes
plural noun
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.
4.
rigid supervision or restriction of actions or movements, as of the immature:
new nations that are freeing themselves of their swaddling clothes.
swaddling clothes
plural noun
1.
long strips of linen or other cloth formerly wrapped round a newly born baby
2.
restrictions or supervision imposed on the immature
Read Also:
- Swaddy
noun (pl) -dies 1. (Brit, slang) a private soldier Compare squaddie
- Swadeshi
noun 1. a political movement in British India that encouraged domestic production and the boycott of foreign, especially British, goods as a step toward home rule. adjective 1. (in present-day India) produced within the country; not imported noun 2. (in British India) the encouragement of domestic production and boycott of foreign goods as part of […]
- Swados
noun 1. Harvey, 1920–72, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- Swag
noun 1. a suspended wreath, garland, drapery, or the like, fastened up at or near each end and hanging down in the middle; festoon. 2. a wreath, spray, or cluster of foliage, flowers, or fruit. 3. a festoon, especially one very heavy toward the center. 4. a swale. 5. a swaying or lurching movement. verb […]
- Swage
noun 1. a tool for bending cold metal to a required shape. 2. a tool, die, or stamp for giving a particular shape to metal on an anvil, in a stamping press, etc. 3. swage block. verb (used with object), swaged, swaging. 4. to bend or shape by means of a swage. 5. to reduce […]