swaddling clothes in the PONS Dictionary

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Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
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A big bow tied around the middle of their swaddling clothes further added to the effect.
www.bbc.co.uk
The shepherds went to the stable and found the baby, wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in the feed trough, or manger, as the angel had described.
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But he will do so through the grave, as the cave and the swaddling clothes also invite us to contemplate.
www.patheos.com
And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
www.vanguardngr.com
This economic lunacy is so wrapped up in the swaddling clothes of sanctimony that it's almost impossible to see that inside there's not some famished waif, but a wolf.
www.independent.ie
And there in the pale light of the glistening tree, hope envelops me like swaddling clothes.
dailysignal.com
I'm wondering how an infant born into swaddling clothes, in a manger on the side of the road, could have become the catalyst for such an explosion of consumerism.
www.independent.ie
I never treated them as though they were in swaddling clothes, he said many years later of his young viewers.
en.wikipedia.org
A woman, with a child wrapped in swaddling clothes on her back is glimpsed at work; somewhere out on the fields men are working.
www.irishexaminer.com

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