ˈswaddling-clouts, n. pl.
[See swaddling vbl. n. and clout n.]
= prec.
| 1530 Palsgr. 819/2 En maillot, in their swadlyng cloutes. 1550 Harington tr. Cicero's Bk. Friendship (1562) 63 b, That euen as wee came together with them in our swadling cloutes, so we might kepe them compaignie to the windyng sheete. 1592 Greene Repentance Wks. (Grosart) XII. 169, I..was euen brought vp from my swadling clouts in wickednes, my infancy was sin. 1602 Carew Cornwall 72 b, When mine adverse party was yet scarcely borne, or lay in her swathling clouts. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. ii. §103 A Godfather, which (with Swadling-clouts) they conceive belong to Infants alone. 1658 Osborn Q. Eliz. Ep., Otherwise the most part of New Books..had still been buried in their Swadling-clouts for want of Transcription. 1678 Bunyan Pilgr. i. Author's Apol. 147 Truth, although the Swadling-clouts..Informs the Judgment. |