Crossword clues for swaddled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swaddle \Swad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swaddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swaddling.]
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To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.
They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen.
--Addison. To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.]
--Hudibras.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: swaddle)
Usage examples of "swaddled".
She stood against the tall window at the end of the hall, her swaddled figure black against the pale gray light of the rainy day outside.
No doubt they appeared a strange sight: a tall, broad-shouldered man outfitted like a common man-at-arms and carrying a swaddled baby on his back but riding a noble gelding whose lines and tackle were fit for a prince, and a woman whose exotic features might make any soldier pause.
Adica waited as the veiled man chanted over a swaddled bundle held in his arms.
To him she gives the leashes of a half-dozen huge black hounds in exchange for a tiny swaddled figure, an infant girl sleeping softly as she is handed over from one grim-faced guardian to the other.
In each Nest lies a slumbering Queen, a great somnolent creature, swaddled and guarded, about whom the entire intricate life of the settlement revolves.
Though swaddled in skins and pelts tied tightly about him with yellow rope, he looked nearly frozen.
Drusa instructed a servant to bring her a wrap, swaddled herself in it, and walked through the atrium onto the loggia, where no one would think to look for her and she could enjoy an hour of peace.
The baby was swaddled in a pair of wool shawls, hidden in the roots of a half-fallen oak.
Ekhnonpa was handing her swaddled baby up into the two-wheeled light carriage, and climbing in after it.
Wrapped in linen, sprinkled with dried flower petals, and swaddled in a wool blanket.
She had a good shape, if a little slender for his tastes: he could tell that much quite easily even though she was swaddled in the all-encompassing robe: you developed an eye for such things if you had bedded as many women as had the Lord of Forent.
The old woman who was tending to Tychoa bent crone by the look of her, even swaddled as she was in the most traditional of slave sabatkas in the coarsest black hessiantook one look at Rui Finco and scuttled from the room as if her life depended on it.
So he is soon swaddled up again, and mentally he stays swaddled up until he dies.
There are two other figures, one woman-sized, one smaller, seated and swaddled in furs and evidently asleep, but they do not seem to be bound or shackled.
It came from lamps carried by a pair of figures whose contours we knew well - two of the handmaidens, swaddled from crown to heel.