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Meanings of swaddle in English

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Blanket or wrap used to swaddle a baby, held in place by fasteners or historically by swaddling bands.

Catalan
bolcar
Spanish
envolver en mantillas

Wrap in swaddling clothes.

bolcar
Usage of swaddle in English
1
The swaddle of diaries under the bed hasn't been disturbed, thank God.
The crimson petal and the white
2
Then they placed the dummy in the Snoo's swaddle and started shaking.
Wired
3
These are the kinds of soft, oversize robes that swaddle you.
NY Magazine
4
Wet heat and death stench swaddle them like a blanket.
The windup girl
5
She will swaddle the sheep like a new-born baby and lay it in the cradle.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
6
It's warm enough in the vestibule that we don't feel the need to swaddle them.
Hull zero three
7
He caught me in a suffocating swaddle of fabric.
Vittorio, the vampire
8
Like the material they would use to swaddle the last sea-turtle egg on the planet.
NY Magazine
9
So the Snoo comes with a special swaddle designed to keep babies on their backs.
Wired
10
Let me tell you, remembering the proper swaddle technique is impossible after a 2 am feeding.
Wired
11
Thick corduroy breeches and gaiters swaddle his shapeless legs, and he rides a coarse-bred Waler mare.
Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.; a...
12
I swaddle her sore-covered body with a black cloth, the way they once shrouded the lepers.
And the rat laughed
13
One woman stripped her own child to swaddle a Syrian baby, hundreds rushed to donate food and clothes.
The Guardian
14
Come, nurse, swaddle him, quick now.
Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé — Volume 03
15
You don't swaddle or feed me!
The Tinder-Box
16
Naked now, except for his loin swaddle, Silas wrapped his cloak over the end of the iron rod.
The Da Vinci Code
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Swaddle through the time