† swathing-cloutsn.
Obsolete.
With plural agreement. = swaddling-clouts n.
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sweddlec725
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swaddling-clouts1530
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1375 Creation 763 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 133 A ȝong child..In þe swaþyng cloutis wounde.
1585 R. Greene Planetomachia i. sig. D2v A disease rooted in women from their swathing cloutes.
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. I4v Wrapt in the foldes and swathing cloutes of shame.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) ii. ii. 385 That great Baby..is not yet out of his swathing clouts [1603 swadling clowts, 1604 swadling clouts].
1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 68 What a Filou in swathing Clowts?
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