swaddling band

noun

: swaddling clothes

—usually used in plural

the swaddling bands by which in darker times the human body was compressed

—W. E. Channing

stifled and strangled in the swaddling bands of mediocrity

—Nineteenth Century & After

Word History

Etymology

Middle English swadeling band

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