sb. pl. Obs. = SWADDLING-CLOUTS.
1375. Creation, 763, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1878), 133. A ȝong child … In þe swaþyng cloutis wounde.
1585. Greene, Planetom., Wks. (Grosart), V. 69. A disease rooted in women from their swathing cloutes.
1594. Greene & Lodge, Looking Gl. (1598), I 4 b. Wrapt in the foldes and swathing cloutes of shame.
1602. Shaks., Ham., II. ii. 401. That great Baby you see there, is not yet out of his swathing clouts [1st Qo. swadling clowts].
1675. Cotton, Scoffer Scoft, 68. What a Filou in swathing Clowts?
