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ˈswaddling-clouts, n. pl.
[See swaddling vbl. n. and clout n.]
= prec.
1530Palsgr. 819/2 En maillot, in their swadlyng cloutes. 1550Harington tr. Cicero's Bk. Friendship (1562) 63 b, That euen as wee came together with them in our swadling cloutes, so we might kepe them compaignie to the windyng sheete. 1592Greene Repentance Wks. (Grosart) XII. 169, I..was euen brought vp from my swadling clouts in wickednes, my infancy was sin. 1602Carew Cornwall 72 b, When mine adverse party was yet scarcely borne, or lay in her swathling clouts. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. ii. §103 A Godfather, which (with Swadling-clouts) they conceive belong to Infants alone. 1658Osborn Q. Eliz. Ep., Otherwise the most part of New Books..had still been buried in their Swadling-clouts for want of Transcription. 1678Bunyan Pilgr. i. Author's Apol. 147 Truth, although the Swadling-clouts..Informs the Judgment. |