"swaddling clothes" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-swaddling clothes.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} swaddling clothes pl (plural only)
  1. A garment, made of strips of cloth, used to bind an infant and restrict movement of its limbs. Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Clothing Translations (garment): σπάργανον (spárganon) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), բարուր (barur) (Armenian), խանձարուր (xanjarur) (Armenian), bolquers [masculine, plural] (Catalan), 襁褓 (qiǎngbǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), kapalot [plural] (Finnish), langes [masculine, plural] (French), φάσκιωμα (fáskioma) [neuter] (Greek), pólya (Hungarian), lanjo (Ido), kapalo (Ingrian), huntu (Ingrian), incūnābula [neuter, plural] (Latin), اشتک (eštak) (Persian), قنداق (qondâq) (Persian), Winjel [feminine] (Plautdietsch), powijaki [masculine, plural] (Polish), manta [feminine] (Portuguese), fașă [feminine] (Romanian), пелёнки (peljónki) [plural] (Russian), свива́льники (sviválʹniki) [plural] (Russian), empañadura [feminine] (Spanish), kundak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-swaddling_clothes-en-noun-1FK524pg Disambiguation of Clothing: 73 27 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English pluralia tantum, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 75 25 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 74 26 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 75 25 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 75 25 Disambiguation of 'garment': 97 3
  2. (idiomatic) An early period in development, infancy, the beginnings of something; inception. Tags: idiomatic, plural, plural-only Translations (early period in development): kapaloaste (Finnish), powijaki [masculine, plural] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-swaddling_clothes-en-noun-yjPHPay6 Disambiguation of 'early period in development': 3 97

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