swaddling clothes

Noun

 * 1) A garment, made of strips of cloth, used to bind an infant and restrict movement of its limbs.
 * 2) * Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn
 * 3)  An early period in development, infancy, the beginnings of something; inception.
 * 4) * 1952, Steel Industry Union Strife Has Been In Progress For Even Century, "The Day" issue of June the 4th, 1952
 * The steel—industry wore swaddling clothes when the first walkout occurred exactly 100 years ago.
 * 1) * 1954, Academy Site May Be Chosen May 15, St Petersburg Times, 11 May issue
 * The Air Force Academy, baby brother to West Point and Annapolis, is crawling out of its swaddling clothes.

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: kapalot
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σπάργανον
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: kapalo, huntu
 * Latin: incūnābula
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Winjel
 * Polish: powijaki
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: пелёнки, свива́льники
 * Spanish: empañadura
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish: kapaloaste
 * Polish: powijaki