sb. pl. Obs. = SWADDLING-CLOTHES.

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1382.  Wyclif, Wisd. vii. 4. I was nurshid in swathing clothis.

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1551.  Robinson, trans. More’s Utopia, II. (1895), 162. They maye laye downe the yong infauntes … take them out of their swathynge clothes and holde them to the fyere, and refreshe them with playe.

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1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., III. ii. 112. Thrice hath the Hotspur Mars, in swathing Clothes, This Infant Warrior … Discomfited great Dowglas.

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1611.  Cotgr., s.v. Aube, En mes aubes, in my infancie, or swathing clothes; when I was in my cradle.

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