swaddling clothes
plural noun
1
: narrow strips of cloth wrapped around an infant to restrict movement
2
: limitations or restrictions imposed on the immature or inexperienced
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web This is pure prosecco fun from a family that has been making wine in Italy since Mary Queen of Scots was in swaddling clothes. 
Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2022 Jesus’ swaddling clothes prefigure his freeing us from death’s winding sheets. Alexandra Mullen, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020 Yet in every variation the meaning shone through, as durable as a soul, wrapped in swaddling clothes. Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2022 Jesus’ swaddling clothes prefigure his freeing us from death’s winding sheets. Alexandra Mullen, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020 Yet in every variation the meaning shone through, as durable as a soul, wrapped in swaddling clothes. Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020 Word History
First Known Use
1526, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- in profile
- in progress
- in proportion
- in proportion to
- in propria persona
- in prospect
- in public
- in pursuance of
- in pursuit of
- in quantity
- in querpo
- in quest of
- in question
- in quick succession
- in quotes
- in rapid succession
- in re
- in reach
- in reaction to
- in readiness
- in real life
- in reality
- in reason
- in record numbers
- in record time