† ˈswathing-clothes, n. pl. Obs.
= swaddling-clothes.
| 1382 Wyclif Wisd. vii. 4, I was nurshid in swathing clothis. 1551 Robinson tr. More's Utopia ii. (1895) 162 They maye laye downe the yong infauntes..take them out of their swathynge clothes and holde them to the fyere, and refreshe them with playe. 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 112 Thrice hath the Hotspur Mars, in swathing Clothes, This Infant Warrior..Discomfited great Dowglas. 1611 Cotgr. s.v. Aube, En mes aubes, in my infancie, or swathing clothes; when I was in my cradle. |