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Swaddling clothes

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A garment, made of strips of cloth, used to bind an infant and restrict movement of its limbs. plural, plural-only
  2. 2
    restrictions placed on the immature wordnet
  3. 3
    An early period in development, infancy, the beginnings of something; inception. idiomatic, plural, plural-only

    "The steel—industry wore swaddling clothes when the first walkout occurred exactly 100 years ago."

  4. 4
    a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant wordnet

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