Noun
swaddling clothes pl (plural only)
- A garment, made of strips of cloth, used to bind an infant and restrict movement of its limbs.
- Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn
- (idiomatic) An early period in development, infancy, the beginnings of something; inception.
Translations
early period in development