The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swaddling \Swad"dling\, a. & n. from Swaddle, v.
Swaddling band, Swaddling cloth, or Swaddling clout, a band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a newborn infant.
Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes,
lying in a manger.
--Luke ii. 12.
Usage examples of "swaddling cloth".
I snatched it up and began to root through the layers of swaddling cloth.
She was wrapped like a mummy, a mummy with a snout, in soft swaddling cloth.
He wrapped the manuscript in its swaddling cloth and reburied it in the storeroom cellar.
So she spoke quickly, without thought, wanting only to return to Sandor and screw, screw, screw, forever seeking the orgasmic ecstasy that enclosed her like a swaddling cloth, insulating her from the bitter, bitter world.
Only when it deposited the bundle on the table beside the glass-sided tank and a tiny bare leg kicked free of the swaddling cloth, Isabella realized that it was a child.
As her attendants hurried to obey, wrapping the baby in a swaddling cloth and carrying him to the far side of the room, the Empress fought to regain her composure.
A minute ago he saw a Cohen triggerman make an on-the-sly delivery: riot guns with rubber-bullet attachments, wrapped in swaddling cloth like Baby Jesus.