ppl. a. [f. SWATHE v. + -ED1.]
† 1. Wrapped in swaddling-clothes, swaddled. Obs.
1608. Heywood, Lucrece, Wks. 1874, V. 167. He … first deposd My father in my swathed infancy.
1627. Drayton, Agincourt, lxxi. An eagle … A swathed Infant holding in her foote.
2. Enveloped in a wrapping or bandage or in clothes draped round the figure; in recent dress-making, arranged in or characterized by folds resembling those of a bandage.
1815. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., iii. (1818), I. 66. The swathed appearance of most insects in this state [sc. the pupa state].
1821. Joanna Baillie, Metr. Leg., Malcolm’s Heir, iii. The Swathed Knight walks his rounds.
1852. Thackeray, Esmond, I. xiii. With a laugh and a look at his swathed [gouty] limb.
1896. Daily News, 1 Dec., 5/6. The swathed bodice was ornamented with straps of embroidery.
1899. Marg. Benson & Gourlay, Temple of Mut, i. 11. An Arab girl with solemn eyes and swathed form.
