swaddling bands

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Noun1.swaddling bands - a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infantswaddling bands - a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant
swaddling clothes
garment - an article of clothing; "garments of the finest silk"
plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
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Han Kang's "The White Book" is about the author's memories and experiences about white objects, including swaddling bands, a newborn's gown, salt, snow and ice.
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The narrator proceeds to make a list of the white things that are directly or obliquely in conversation with her sister's death and life: swaddling bands, salt, rice, bones, pills, hair, breast milk, fog ...
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I could quite easily have camped out in his trousers, while if I'd tried on his shirt I'd have looked like a babe in swaddling bands.
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