swaddling clothes in the PONS Dictionary

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And there in the pale light of the glistening tree, hope envelops me like swaddling clothes.
dailysignal.com
I never treated them as though they were in swaddling clothes, he said many years later of his young viewers.
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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
Some of the monuments depict the deceased's children: one portrays 18 children and another has a single baby in swaddling clothes with rose and lily.
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Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
www.telegraph.co.uk
The design features a baby in swaddling clothes.
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She was hard-pressed for swaddling clothes.
lifestyle.inquirer.net
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
A big bow tied around the middle of their swaddling clothes further added to the effect.
www.bbc.co.uk
For what is meaner than swaddling clothes?
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