swaddling clothes

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsswaddling bands

   Broadergarment

   plural

2. 2.

   restrictions placed on the immature

   Broaderconstraint

   plural

Questions about swaddling clothes

What does swaddling clothes mean?

swaddling clothes means "a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for swaddling clothes?

Close synonyms include swaddling bands. 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 clothes a common word?

swaddling clothes 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.