swaddled, ppl. a.
(ˈswɒd(ə)ld)
[f. swaddle v. + -ed1.]
Wrapped in swaddling-clothes.
| 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 149 The mothers dugge doth serue the childe, and still attendeth vppon the swathled babe. 1587 A. Day Daphnis & Chloe (1890) 11 The sheepe that whilome sucked the swatheled impe. 1712 W. Rogers Voy. 352 They look like a swadled Child, with its Arms at liberty. 1821 Combe Syntax, Wife v, So careful did the Dame appear To guard from cold her swaddled dear. 1873 R. Broughton Nancy III. 59 The year is no longer a swaddled baby, it is shooting up into a tall stripling. 1911 Petrie Rev. Civilis. iii. 73 The brass of Anne Astley..with the swaddled twins in her arms. |