WordNet
n. a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant [syn: swaddling clothes]
Usage examples of "swaddling bands".
I was fighting Saxons while you were wetting your swaddling bands!
As Mairi fell into an exhausted sleep, Caillean hung a small metal amulet around the infant's neck, and began to cocoon it in swaddling bands.
I was not allowed to tell you before, or since, but your father was, or will be, King Uther Pendragon, and it was I myself, disguised as a beggar, who first carried you to Sir Ector's castle, in your golden swaddling bands.
They rode on through the orchard and passed into another tangle of forest, where Jerna took advantage of the dappled light to drop down from the trees and coil around Blessing's swaddling bands.
Here he gestured toward the sleeping infant, cradled in swaddling bands and tied to its mother's back.
Blessing lay tumbled on the ground, screaming, linen swaddling bands a little unwound as though she'd hit the ground and rolled.
They had thin though strong bare legs under swaddling bands and ragged European jackets, and all were turbaned.