swaddling bands

1. 1.

   a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant

   Synonymsswaddling clothes

   Broadergarment

   plural

Questions about swaddling bands

What does swaddling bands mean?

swaddling bands means "a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant".

What is another word for swaddling bands?

Close synonyms include swaddling clothes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swaddling bands a common word?

swaddling bands is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.