ˈswathing-band
1. = swaddling-band. Usually pl.
| c 1435 Torr. Portugal 2017 Vp they toke the child ying,..And vndid the swathing band. 1632 J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 192 They scorned to serve a babe in his swathing bands. a 1668 R. Lassels Voy. Italy (1698) II. 211 An angel of silver..presenting to our Lady a child of gold in swathing-bands. 1702 N. Tate Hymn, ‘While shepherds’ iv, The heavenly Babe..All meanly wrapt in swathing bands. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 189/1 Among neither people, however, did art altogether escape from the swathing-bands of its nursery. |
† 2. A bandage, a band of stuff for winding round a body. Also transf. Obs.
| 1615 Crooke Body of Man 143 Fascia renum, that is, the Kidneyes swathing band. 1625 K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis v. i. 328 Hee takes off the swathing-band from the most dangerous wound. 1683 P. Lorrain Muret's Rites Funeral 3 Afterwards they anointed it [sc. the corpse] outwardly all over with a certain gum; wrapt it in swathing-bands of very fine linnen. 1684 T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 268 As so many girdles or swathing-bands about the body of the earth. |