swaddling clothes

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Only on Wednesday, at last, did the Duke and Duchess present their firstborn, wrapped in swaddling clothes, to the prying gaze of the world.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2019

And art lovers marvel at the top of the facade, which is lined with Andrea della Robbia’s beloved terra-cotta babies in swaddling clothes.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2016

Nine out of 10 infants in North America are swaddled in the first six months of life, and the demand for swaddling clothes soared by 61% in the UK between 2010 and 2011.

From Scientific American • Nov. 22, 2013

It means the "swaddling clothes" of a baby industry.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2013

August started to sing then in a humming sort of way, “ ‘Mary brought forth her firstborn child and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in the manger.’

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd